Thursday, March 29, 2012

Piece by piece

Today in Social Studies we reviewed what a compass rose is and it's use on a map.  I blew the dust off our pull down maps and the students were in awe...you would have thought it was a new technological devise but better. No wires, pens, cursor or batteries.  We followed up with a giant floor puzzle of the United States.  Using several maps I encouraged them to team up  to name states and use new vocabulary; north, south, east and west.  Piece by piece; state by state and rotation after rotation they all worked together and added to their work.  They completed! 


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