Content Area: Social Studies

 

Index: 6.6A Grade 2 CPI 2

 

Standard: 6.6 - Geography

 

Strand: A -  World in Spatial Terms

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will explain that the globe is a model of the earth and maps are representations of local and distant places.

 

Grade: 2

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students use a globe to show the routes their families took to arrive in New Jersey. A class map is created as each student locates and labels his or her family’s route to New Jersey. This class map can be compared with similar maps developed by other classes. A grade-level or school immigration map can then be designed and exhibited in a prominent place—to be updated with new arrivals to the grade or school. Students make bar charts and graphs of ethnicity, routes taken, and reasons for emigration using the data collected.