Task 2: Melber and Hunter

The task from Unit 2 of Melber and Hunter that I would like to adapt for my classroom is Strategy 7 on developing map skills. I chose this activity because in my 3 years of teaching third grade, maps have always been a focus of our social studies instruction and when looking through the new essential standards finding location withing a community is still present. Here are a list of ideas that come to mind on how to use this strategy next year in my classroom:

(1) Reviewing polygons through the images the students see in their community (math)
(2) Learning about scale and how to draw to scale (math)
(3) How to read a map of the local community (social studies)
(4) Estimating and actual distance from one place to another in feet (math and social studies)
(5) Determining which system of measurement should be used to describe the distance from one place to another (inches, feet, or miles- customary; centimeters, meters, or kilometers- metric)

Please note that ideas (1), (4) and (5) are adaptations from page 51 of the book and idea (2) is adapted from the rubric on page 52 of the book.