Day Three: "Maps & Navigation"
5 x 5 for 5th Grade
5 Pictures & illustrations
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| Sophie is a great teacher |
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| Lily's work with Sophie |
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| Compass |
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| Working on her 5 x 5 |
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| Web Quest |
1 .longitude: an imaginary line across the earth East to West
2.latitude: an imaginary line going across the earth North to South
3 navigation: planning a trip for ship or plane
4.hemisphere: either two halves of the earth north-south or east-west
5. meridian: a latitude line running north to south
5 Sentences
1. The longitude is an imaginary line across the earth usually measured by degrees.
2. The latitude is the opposite of longitude also measured by degrees going North to South
3. I live in Maine which is in the northern hemisphere.
4. The prime meridian intersects with the equator.
5. Ship captains, or pilots, navigate the safest route to get human beings to their destination.
5 Facts/ Details
1.The prime meridian is the most important latitude line just like the equator is to longitude.
2. The difference between an Atlas, a map, and a globe are that the atlas is a collection of maps, the map is of one thing, and a globe is of the world.
3. The European's landed in America and thought they were in India, That's why they called Native Americans, Indians.
4. The equator is the warmest spot on earth.
5.The Vikings were the first who pretty much landed in America first.
5 Questions & answers
- What were the European explorers searching for?
- Why is a compass important for navigation?
- Explain what the Prime Meridian and Equator are.
- How are the globe's hemispheres divided?
- Why did the first explorers call the people they met "Indians"? Because they thought they were in India.
Explain your first history project. What did you learn today? What did you make today? How will what you learned today help you complete your project?
For My fist history project ( which I do monthly ) I'm going to make a scrapbook of maps and study the early explorers. I'm going to make my maps 3-D and have sliding pieces. I learned about navigation and about maps and globes. I made a compass today and made all of the points on it. I also decorated it with whales and ships ext. All of what I learned today will help me with my project. Especially learning about compasses and how maps work. Today we volunteered to babysit Nora. And we taught Lily, and we did a web quest about maps. In the web quest I learned about the Southern, Northern, Eastern, and Western hemispheres. I did a worksheet where I had to name 3 countries in each continent in each hemisphere. Tomorrow I will do school with dad.
Day Three
Today was a good school day. Since Sophie had plans already to attend the baseball game with Bill for her birthday, we decided to count that as her field trip for the day. She will complete her 5 x 5 tomorrow on what she learned at the game from Bill. We decided to go ahead and pick three activities today and they were: volunteer (which without a lot of notice is hard to accomplish on a whim so we decided that the favor we already scheduled to do for Elizabeth to babysit Nora would count), teach Lily (Sophie worked on 4 Basic Skills worksheets with Lily that practiced "big to small" and "what's wrong with this picture" and "shapes"), and WebQuest (which corresponded with my planned lesson on maps & navigation) http://hes.ucfsd.org/curricu/mapglobe/index.html.
In the morning Sophie spent time playing math and word games on a great website: http://www.funbrain.com/ and http://www.poptropica.com/.
Then I introduced our Exploration Unit with a lesson on maps and navigation. We took out the globe and I showed her the north and south poles, the equator, the latitude and longitude lines, all the major continents, and the oceans and major seas. I showed her Europe and China and India. I explained to her about the desire for European monarchs and explorers to find a quicker passage to the Orient in order to get the most spices to sell back in Europe. We looked at the globe and I showed her the land route to Asia and we talked about how long it would take explorers and all their gear and animals, carts, and people to travel across all those miles—not to mention all the armies and kings in between! Then we looked at the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea and saw how large ships sailing from Europe can't get from there to the Indian Ocean—there's no possible way. So then we looked at traveling south along the African coast and around the tip of Cape of Good Hope and talked about how far and dangerous a journey that must have been. I told Sophie that we would also be studying the early European explorers and those that sailed around the African coast but our first unit will focus on the exploration of North America.
Sophie's first history project will be a scrapbook of explorers including Columbus, Cabot, Hudson, Cartier, and others. Each page will include a pocket full of information and activities for each explorer and an interactive 3-d map of each explorer's voyage that Sophie will complete. Her scrapbook will also include pages about the Native Americans and their relationships with the first European explorers. We will begin with the very first of the European explorers, the Vikings, in the year 1000 AD and the Abanaki Indians of northern Maine and coastal Canada on Monday.
After her lesson Sophie cut, pasted, and colored a compass and she learned about the directions and use of the tool for navigation (see photo). She also worked on her 5 x5 and did an excellent job today! I especially like her sentences. Since homeschooling allows room for trial and error, after consideration I altered her 5 x 5 plan and decided to provide Sophie with 5 Questions every school day that she has to answer. These questions will be content-specific and will also serve as an excellent assessment on Fridays when she will be quizzed on 15 of the possible 25 questions she answered during the week.
She worked really hard today and I am really proud of her.
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