👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

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

Vocabulary
mental map, landmark, reference map

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 mental map is a picture of a place in your mind. Familiar places are often easier to remember. A mental map can leave things out or put them in the wrong place. Compare your memory with a reference map and correct it.

Study Resource: Library 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 picture of a place held in the mind
• - an easy-to-recognize feature
• - a map used to check information

Words to Learn

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Sentences to Fill In

1. The term for a picture of a place held in the mind is .
2. The term for an easy-to-recognize feature is .
3. The term for a map used to check information is .

🧪 Think & Respond Q&A

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

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

3. What cell contains Computers?

4. Which place is immediately east of Shelves?

5. Which place is immediately south of Computers?

6. How many places are shown in row 1?

7. Give a two-block route from Shelves to Entrance.

8. If your memory disagrees with the practice map, what should you do?

9. On this map, is Shelves in the same row or the same column as Entrance?

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

11. Which lesson word means "a picture of a place held in the mind"?

12. Which lesson word means "an easy-to-recognize feature"?

13. Which lesson word means "a map used to check information"?

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

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

What You Do:

1. Copy the Library 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 2, Week 9. Teacher lesson begins on printed page 38 (PDF page 40). The explanations, practice data, diagrams, activities, and questions in this lesson are original. Fictional datasets are labeled in their study resources.