Alabama Social Studies SS24.7.1d

Social Studies7th GradeFive Themes of Geography and Map Skills

The Standard

SS24.7.1: Describe the world in spatial terms, using maps and other geographic representations, tools, and geospatial technologies.

Describe how geographic features and political entities are organized and labeled, including continents, countries, and oceans.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students locate and label continents, countries, and oceans on a map. They use coastlines and country borders to place each name.
What Mastery Looks Like: On a map of Africa, students label Africa, Egypt, and the Atlantic Ocean in the right places. They explain that Egypt is a country within Africa and the Atlantic Ocean lies west of it.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call Africa a country or Egypt a continent. They may put ocean names on land or mistake country borders for coastlines.
How to Assess It: Give students a blank map of Africa with country borders and surrounding water. Ask them to label Africa, Egypt, and the Atlantic Ocean, then identify which label names a country.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a blank world map and an atlas; have them color continents, label oceans, and mark Egypt, Brazil, and Japan.
Show a map of Africa and ask students to explain why Egypt is a country but Africa is a continent.
Play map bingo with cards naming places; call clues such as 'country in northeast Africa' and 'ocean west of Africa.'
On a printed shipping route map, trace Morocco to Brazil and label both countries, their continents, and the Atlantic Ocean.

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