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"Yarning" About Latitude and Longitude
Discipline
Social Studies
Grades
5, 6
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This activity offers students a hands-on introduction to longitude, latitude, and absolute location. The students design a human globe and identify various places on the globe using different colors of yarn and labels. This activity requires a lot of room so it could also be done outside on the playground. This activity provides students first with a concrete, whole class activity to locating various places on a globe, then to a semi-concrete activity designing a globe of their own using a balloon. This is an incredible activity to teach or review location of the equator, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole, Prime Meridian, the tropics and the hemispheres. (author/pb/vm)


Ohio Social Studies Academic Content Standards (2010)
Grade 5: Regions and People of the Western Hemisphere
Geography Strand
Spatial Thinking and Skills
5. 
Latitude and longitude can be used to make observations about location and generalizations about climate.
Grade 6: Regions and People of the Eastern Hemisphere
Geography Strand
Spatial Thinking and Skills
4. 
Latitude and longitude can be used to identify absolute location.
Social Studies Standards (2001)
Geography
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 3)
5.
Identify the location of the equator, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole, Prime Meridian, the tropics and the hemispheres on maps and globes.