Lesson Plan

Lesson title: Map, Globe and Imaginary lines

Subject: Social studies

Grade: 5th.
Lesson duration: 6 sessions of 45 Minutes (270 minutes)

 Objectives:

 General learning objective: Knowledge and Skill development

 Instructional objectives: Students will be able to:

i) Understand meaning and difference between map and globe, features and
usage of the same.

ii) To have a basic idea of the important lines of latitude.

iii) Understand the meaning of latitude and a line of latitude, and the
difference between the two.

iv) To understand the characteristic features and significance of the lines of

latitude.
v) To understand the relation between the longitude of a place and its time

vi) Use 21st. century skills of map and navigation.

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 Teacher’s aid:

i) TREK – 5 textbook

ii) World map

iii) Globe

iv) Projector

v) Worksheet of drawing of picture to explain scale

vi) Puzzle

vii) Grid worksheet

viii) Laptop and Internet

 Vocabulary:

i) Map

ii) Globe

iii) Imaginary

iv) Latitude

v) Longitude

vi) Grid

vii) Equator

viii) Prime Meridian

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 Teaching methodology:

i) Discussion

ii) Display (Map and Globe)

iii) Video

 Background knowledge:

i) Meaning of word flat, miniature model

ii) Work of early human’s i.e. searching of food and water.

iii) Problems if one don’t know location.

 Teaching process:

i) Brief introduction of chapter and background knowledge.

ii) Information about requirement and usage of map in olden days.

iii) Introduction of Globe

iv) Compare and contrast map and globe

v) Introduction of imaginary lines, features and uses of the same.

vi) Integration of technology in usage of map and globe in 21st. century

 Targeted skills:

i) Decoding

ii) Relating

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 Integration of other subjects:

i) Art (Drawing picture for explanation of scale)

ii) Computer / Technology

iii) English (Students discussion and pen and paper test)

 Recapitulation:

i) Video

ii) Discussion

iii) Worksheet

 Assessment:

i) Pen and paper test

ii) Activity based assessment (Activity of finding latitudes and longitude

of given place from given globe)