Common Core Lessons & Activities: Map Skills Book

Map Skills - Common Core Lessons and Activities book Meet the new Common Core State Standards for ELA as well as Literacy & Writing in History and Social Studies! This book is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing inference, text-dependent questions and more into your daily instruction.  Here's how it works!  Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core State Standards expectations.  Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.  Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.  Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! Map Skills- Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: Reading for Information Higher-Order Thinking Writing Problems Primary Source Analysis Vocabulary Graphic Organizers Map Activities & More! Tips for using and reproducing the book pages:  Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.  Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.  Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. ©2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school. ISBN: 978-0-635-10625-4   Table of Contents include: What Are Maps?: Reading Informational Text Cartography: Main Idea Reading a Map: Applying Concepts A Community Map: Map Activity Using a Simple Grid: Concepts & Processes Imaginary Lines Divide the Earth: Reading Informational Text Views of the World: Comparison of Primary Sources Building a Map: Concepts & Processes Relative & Absolute Location: Applying Concepts Location, Location, Location: Classifying Information Political & Climate Maps: Compare & Contrast Physical & Resource Maps: Comparison of Sources A Map Series: Graphical Data Analysis Aerial Painting: Primary Source Analysis  Common Core State Standards Correlations