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Navigating Latitude and Longitude: A Fun Learning Experience for Oklahoma Students

This educational resource helps 4th and 5th-grade students in Oklahoma grasp the concepts of latitude and longitude through interactive learning. Students will engage in a board game activity that emphasizes understanding absolute location using coordinates to locate shipwreck survivors. They’ll learn to utilize maps and digital resources, enhancing their ability to identify locations accurately. By reinforcing skills related to geographic vocabulary and tools, students will feel more competent in their social studies curriculum while having fun!

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Navigating Latitude and Longitude: A Fun Learning Experience for Oklahoma Students

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  1. L A T I T U D E O N G I T U D E In A Message Bottle

  2. Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills Grade 4 Social Studies: 2.3 – Construct and use maps of the regions of the United States, the continents, and the world to demonstrate understanding of relative location, direction, latitude, longitude, scale, size, and shape, using appropriate geographic vocabulary, tools, and technologies. Grade 5 Social Studies: 7.1 – Identify, evaluate & draw conclusions from different kinds of maps, graphs, charts, diagrams, and other sources and representations, such as aerial & shuttle photographs, satellite-produced images, the geographic information system (GIS), encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, atlases, and computer-based technologies; and construct and use maps of locales, regions, continents, and the world that demonstrate an understanding of mental mapping, relative location, latitude, longitude, key, legend, map symbols, scale, size, shape, and landforms.

  3. Objectives Students will review the concept of latitude and longitude. Students will understand that by using latitude/longitude coordinates, absolute locations can easily be found on a map. Students will become more competent in finding absolute locations by playing a board game which employs latitude and longitude coordinates to locate survivors of a shipwreck.

  4. The equator (0º) is the starting point for measuring latitude. Latitude lines are horizontal lines that run parallel to the equator; those above the line denote north (N) latitude; those below the equator denote south (S) latitude. http://geographyworldonline.com/tutorial/latitudelongitude.jpg

  5. The prime meridian (0º) is the starting point for measuring longitude. Vertical longitude lines to the right of the prime meridian denote east (E) longitude while those to the left of the prime meridian denote west (W) longitude. http://geographyworldonline.com/tutorial/latitudelongitude.jpg

  6. http://picsicio.us/image/7c24e3ee/ Latitude is always stated first. (Example: 40ºN, 100ºW) 0º latitude and 0º longitude are never labeled with a direction. (0º, 20ºE) (40ºN, 0º)

  7. Fun Way to Help Oklahoma Students Remember to Locate Latitude First! If the student is an OU fan, think Over and Up! If the student is an OSU fan, think Over and Straight Up!

  8. http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/MessageinBottle.pdfhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/MessageinBottle.pdf

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