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.”
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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.