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Latitude and longitude: finding any place on Earth

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Latitude and longitude are a grid of imaginary lines that let us give the exact location of any place on Earth. This lesson teaches reading and plotting coordinates, and naming the hemisphere a point falls in.

14 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — lines of latitude and longitude, how they are numbered, N/S and E/W
  5. Teach — graticule: Equator, tropics, Prime Meridian
  6. I Do
  7. Poll
  8. Task — guided: read the latitude and longitude of four labelled points
  9. Task — semi: name the nearest city to a given coordinate pair, from a provided shortlist
  10. Task — independent: plot four real-world events on a blank graticule map by their coordinates; extension: name the hemisphere each falls in
  11. Self-Check
  12. Homework
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