Topic: Map and Geography Skills
What students should already know from kindergarten at BFA:
-what maps and globes represent and how to use them
- what rivers, lakes, and mountains are and how they are represented on maps and globes
- the location of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the North and South Poles
- the location of the seven continents
What students need to learn in first grade:
- The use of map keys (or legends) and symbols
- Directions on a map: north, south, east, west
- Review the seven continents
- The name and location of their continent, country, state, and community
- The location of the five world oceans (see above)
- The location of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America
- The location of the Equator, and the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
- The meaning (and appropriate usage) of the terms peninsula, harbor, bay, and island
What students should already know from kindergarten at BFA:
-what maps and globes represent and how to use them
- what rivers, lakes, and mountains are and how they are represented on maps and globes
- the location of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the North and South Poles
- the location of the seven continents
What students need to learn in first grade:
- The use of map keys (or legends) and symbols
- Directions on a map: north, south, east, west
- Review the seven continents
- The name and location of their continent, country, state, and community
- The location of the five world oceans (see above)
- The location of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America
- The location of the Equator, and the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
- The meaning (and appropriate usage) of the terms peninsula, harbor, bay, and island