Geography

Introduction

This Webquest will allow students to create a neighborhood map of their own neighborhood.

Students will create a map on their own of their neighborhood. They will provide information about landmarks and things that they remember that are in their neighborhood. This will help the students to become more familiar with how a map is constructed, their environment, places in their neighborhood.

Task

The assignment is to create a map of your neighborhood putting landmarks, houses and familiar places on the map.

Each student will create the map individually:

1. Draw a map

2. Write in familiar landmarks

3. Add houses, schools, churches, etc..

Also, each student will provide a picture of their neighborhood and street where they live.

Process

1. Students will be introduced to a map of the United States of America

2. Students will draw the map on their own

3. The students will be introduced to many different types of maps

4. Students will be provided with the directions for the activity

5. The students will compete the activity at home

6. Students will turn in the assignment on Friday

7. Each students work will be displayed around the classroom

Evaluation

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This Assignment is worth a total of 40 points	Beginning	Developing	Very Good	Excellent
Drew a map	Map has more than five incorrect labels	Map has three to four incorrect labels	Map contains one or two incorrect labels	Map is neat and labeling is correct
Incorporated landmarks	Included one landmark in the neighborhood	Included at least two landmarks in the neighborhood	Included three to four landmarks in the neighborhood	Included five or more landmark in the neighborhood
Included people in the neighborhood	Drew at least one person in the neighborhood	Drew at least one to two people in the neighborhood	Drew at least three to four people in the neighborhood	Drew at least five or more people in the neighborhood
Added a picture of your neighborhood	Added a picture of something in their neighborhood	Added a picture of at three things in the neighborhood	Added a picture drawn of the neighborhood	Added a polaroid picture of the neighborhood

Conclusion

At the end of this activity, students will have a betterunderstanding of the five themes of geography. Students will become morefamiliar with locations by providing locations in their neighborhood on themap. They will also gain more knowledge of places because they will incorporatethe places they know within their neighborhood. Students may incorporate activitiesthat may occur in familiar places. Students will provide a picture of theirneighborhood to show movement. They will create a map of the region which theylive within. Students will see their classmate’s maps and discover that manyneighborhoods are different.

Teacher Page

This lesson students will create a map of their
neighborhood. This map will include landmarks, houses and people in their
neighborhood. It will take about 3-4 hours to complete this webquest activity.

Standards

G1.0.1 – Recognizes that maps and globes represent places
G2.0.1 – Identify and describe places in the immediate environment (e.g., classroom, home, playground).