Thinking About Maps and Globes

Geography Unit for K-1DE Recommended Curriculum

Carol and Phil Gersmehl, New York Center for Geographic LearningAdapted for DE use by Maggie Legates, DGA

Lesson One -Thinking and Talking About

Location

Lesson Two: Representation with

Models

Lesson Three: Representation with Maps

Lesson Four: Sequence during a Journey

Lesson Five: Globe as a Model of Earth

Lesson Six: Near and Far

• Which is nearer,

the low boat (Little Key) or the tall ship Kalmar Nyckel?

Lesson Seven:

High and Low

The tall ship Kalmar Nyckel is 105 feet high.The row boat Little Key is 6 and a half feet high.

Looking down from a high place

The valley is 1500 feet below the mountain.

Looking up from a low place

This quarry in northern Delaware is 292 feet high.

Harlem Success School Building

Height Feet40

Hill in Marcus Garvey Park

Height Feet100

Empire State Building

Height Feet

Roof 1,250

Antenna/Spire 1,472 ft

Catskill Mountains

Highest point is Slide Mountain at 4,180 feet

Adirondack Mountains in New York

Height of Mount Marcy is 5,344 feet

Photos were taken in NY and elsewhere in the U.S.:

The photos show

--flat lands (plains),

--flat lands with gentle ups and downs,

--flat lands with areas that go steeply up,

--and different shore lines next to the ocean (both flat and steep)

Level land in eastern Long Island…(a nursery)

1- flat land or plain

Level land in eastern Long Island…(farm where pumpkins are for sale)

2 - flat landor plain

Level land in upstate New York

3 3 – almost flat landwith some gentleups and downs

Level land with a special kind of hill (a butte) – Monument Valley in Western U.S. (Utah, Arizona)

A

B

4 – flat landwith areas that go

steeply up and down

Shore next to the ocean---a sandy beach that is pretty level…and small hills in background…

5 – flat landnext to the ocean

(shore)

Shore next to the ocean — a rocky shore along coast of Oregon

6 – steep landnext to the ocean

(shore)

Shore---a sandy beach (Cape Code, Massachusetts) with small sandy hills…

7– flat landnext to the ocean

(shore)

These photos were taken in the U.S.

Find the highest place in each picture; find the lowest place.

Look for - Mountains

- Valleys

- Hills

Discuss how “Hills” are different from“Mountains.”

carol.gersmehl@gmail.com, Feb. 7, 2009

Sierra Nevada mountains in California… High mountains (about 10,000 feet) often are covered with snow (even in summer because the higher elevation is colder).

10 – Mountains and Valleys that are lower places between higher mountains

Yosemite Mountains in California; also the valley which is lower in elevation…

11 – Mountains and Valley (which is lower)

Carol is walking in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina (about 5000 feet)

12 - Mountain

Hills (Sandhills) in Nebraska; the cows help give notion of size/height…

13 - Hills

Hills and valley on Carol’s farm in Wisconsin…- Autumn

14 – Hills

Hills and valley on Carol’s farm in Wisconsin…winter

15 – Hills

Hills on Carol’s farm in Wisconsin…cows help to show size

16 – Hills

Deep and narrow valley in western U.S. (Idaho or Oregon?) Bridge may help with concept…

16 – Steep-sided Valley

Yosemite National Park in California

Height of Mount Lyell is 13,114 feet

• This map shows high places and low places in Delaware.