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Content Area: Language Arts Literacy
Index: 3.5A Grade 4 CPI 1
Standard: 3.5 - Viewing and Media Literacy
Strand: A - Constructing Meaning
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will interpret information found in pictorial graphs, map keys, and icons on a computer screen.
Grade: 4
Sample Activities:
· In connection with a mythology unit, students study the development of ancient cities. They look at variety of maps (political, topographical, and geographic) of a given area. Using the symbols on the maps, they interpret why the population center developed, considering terrain, climate, altitude, waterways, and seaports. After class discussion, students work in small groups with a teacher-created map featuring an imaginary country and standard symbols designating the location of natural features such as mountains and rivers. Students decide where to place major population centers.
· Students review a newspaper’s list or table of tonight’s television programs to determine how they would spend one hour of television viewing. After making their selections, students meet in small groups to discuss the schedule of programs and identify the features on the page they used to help them determine what program(s) to watch.
Kidspiration Activities that can be utilized instructionally to teach and reinforce above cumulative progress indicator (CPI):
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