1. Would you like to come on a Great American Road Trip?
YEAR 4 UNIT 1
The Americas
Would you like to come on a Great American Road Trip?
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2. What are North American cities like?
WEEK 1
What are North American cities like?
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3. Learning objective
To use the eight points of the compass, with an atlas, map and/or Google™ Earth, to locate cities in the continents of North and South America, and to discover something about (some of) these cities and their states.
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4. Success criteria
I can locate the city of Denver in the state of Colorado, in the country of the USA, on the continent of North America, using a map, an atlas index or Google Earth.
I can find the names of cities that are located approximately N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W and NW of Denver.
I can record (on a worksheet) the names of the cities and the country and state each is in.
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5. Key vocabulary
city, state, country, continent, North America, South America, compass points (8)
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6. North America
Using a globe, atlas or Google Earth, can you identify any countries in the North American continent?
Using a globe, atlas or Google Earth, can you find the equator and the Tropic of Cancer?
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7. States of the USA
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8. Cities of the North American continent
Using Google Earth, once you have found the city you are looking for, zoom out until you can see the name of the state it is in.
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