Examples From Fourth Grade

Social Studies Lesson

This is a lesson from the Fourth Grade Unit, Age of Exploration. In this lesson the students created land forms on a map and then labeled the continents and oceans. The final step was painting the routes that were taken by Prince Henry, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama, and the Silk Road.

Students hard at work!

Student work example.

Lesson Plan

Copy of Age of Exploration Day 3

Directions

Copy of Salt Dough Map Directions

Simple Directions

Copy of Simple directions

Map Template

Copy of Salt Dough Map Outline

Self-evaluation

Copy of Simple Self-Evaluation: Salt Dough Map

Rubric

Copy of Revised Salt Dough Map Rubric