Florida Lesson Plans:
Longitude and Latitude

The following lesson plans are aligned with Florida's Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (2008). There are links to printable versions of the lesson at the bottom of the page.

Lesson Title:
Longitude and Latitude
Objective:
The student will be able to differentiate Lines of Longitude from Lines of Latitude.

The student will be able to locate and identify lines of Lines, of Latitude, Lines of Longitude, the equator, the north pole, the south pole, the Prime Meridian and the International Date Line.
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards:
SS.6.G.1.1  Use latitude and longitude coordinates to understand the relationship between people and places on the Earth.

SS.6.G.1.4  Utilize tools geographers use to study the world.



SS.6.G.1.5  Use scale, cardinal, and intermediate directions, and estimation of distances between places on current and ancient maps of the world.
Activities:
  • Latitude Dance:  teacher and students stretch out wide to represent latitude and stand straight while jumping up and down to simulate longitude.
  • Video and Video Quiz on Globes (Discovery Education Video, 18 mins.)
  • Brain Pop:  Longitude and Latitude
  • Time and Space assignment on Latitude nad Longitude
  • HOMEWORK: Time and Space assignment on the Fourth Dimension
Materials:
  • Time and Space assignment on Longitude and Latitude
  • Video

Resources:

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