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Social Studies - Creating a Classroom Map

SocialStudies
Yes

Description
Using the Windows Paint Program students draw a map of their classroom using the tools in the tool box.  This is an introductory lesson for the mapping portion of the Grade 4 Social Studies Curriculum.

MultiClassPlan
Yes

Tech Skills
Use of the tools in the Tool Box Windows Paint Program.  Especially the Rectangular and Circular Drawing Tools and Use of the Shift Key to Make an exact square or circle.

Software
Windows Paint Program

SpecificGrade
Yes

T1
Grade 4

SubmittedBy
Leslie Gentes

E-mail: lgentes@wsd1.org

Details:

Before coming to the computer lab students are asked to carefully study the layout of their classroom and work out the N-E-S-E directions in their room. (If a classroom is not set up at right angles, introduce the concepts of NE, SW, etc.)

Students open the Windows Paint Program and if little previous experience, they spend some time practicing drawing straight lines, rectangles, squares, circles and ovals.

Students are then asked to draw a rectangle representing their classroom and to type in the directions of North, East, South and West. They are then instructed to draw a map of their room looking down from the ceiling and to keep the objects in the room in proportion as much as possible.  If time students also labeled the objects in the room map.