👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Read a map and use its labels, directions, or grid to locate places.

Vocabulary
route, destination, block

Suggested time
20-30 minutes, with optional practice across the week.

Teaching Notes

• Read the short passage aloud. Point to each label or number as children follow. Accept an oral answer or a labeled drawing before asking for a sentence.
• Introduce the study resource before assigning questions. Students can answer using this lesson without opening the source book.
• Use questions 1-4 for guided practice and the remaining questions for independent practice or discussion. Open responses may use different wording if the evidence supports them.
• Check the activity against its stated constraints and the answer bank. Revisit a missed concept before adding a new one.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

A route is a way from one place to another. Find your starting place and destination before you begin. Follow one step at a time. A route can turn, and two different routes may reach the same place. Count blocks rather than counting the starting square.

Study Resource: Fun Park Practice Map

This is an invented practice place. North is up. Columns A, B, C run west to east. Rows 1, 2, 3 run north to south. Each cell has one place. Adjacent cell centers are one block apart. Walk only north, south, east, or west.

Vocabulary and Definition

• - a way from one place to another
• - the place where a trip ends
• - one space between neighboring cell centers on this map

Words to Learn

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Sentences to Fill In

1. The term for a way from one place to another is .
2. The term for the place where a trip ends is .
3. The term for one space between neighboring cell centers on this map is .

🧪 Think & Respond Q&A

1. What place is in cell A1 on the Fun Park practice map?

2. What place is in cell C2 on the Fun Park practice map?

3. What cell contains Big wheel?

4. Which place is immediately east of Bridge?

5. Which place is immediately south of Big wheel?

6. How many places are shown in row 1?

7. Find a shortest route from Bridge at A1 to Garden at C3. How long is it?

8. If the middle cell B2 is closed, can you still go from A1 to C3? Give a route.

9. On this map, is Bridge in the same row or the same column as Carousel?

10. What information would you need to find the real distance in meters between two places?

11. Which lesson word means "a way from one place to another"?

12. Which lesson word means "the place where a trip ends"?

13. Which lesson word means "one space between neighboring cell centers on this map"?

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need: Paper, pencil, and nine small counters.

What You Do:

1. Copy the Fun Park practice map. Mark A1 with a counter. Ask a partner to give three legal moves and follow them. Write the start, moves, and final cell.
2. Check the route by tracing each move. Then describe a different route to the same destination.
3. Revise one part of your work after checking it against the lesson evidence.

Think and Talk: What evidence supports one choice in your work?

Reflection

• Which idea can you explain now?
• What would you still need to learn about a real place?

Teacher Check

Check accurate use of the study resource, correct vocabulary or units, and a reason supported by evidence. For open activities, accept more than one result when it follows the instructions. The companion CSV contains the same numbered Q&A bank shown above.

Curriculum Reference

Scope alignment: Evan-Moor, Daily Geography Practice, Grade 1, Week 24. Teacher lesson begins on printed page 98 (PDF page 100). The explanations, practice data, diagrams, activities, and questions in this lesson are original. Fictional datasets are labeled in their study resources.