Florida SS.1.G.1.4

Social Studies1st GradeThe World in Spatial Terms

The Standard

Identify a variety of physical features using a map and globe.

Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find and name landforms and bodies of water shown on maps and globes. They use color, shape, labels, and map keys to tell features apart.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given an unfamiliar map or globe, a student can point to and name several features, such as a mountain, river, lake, ocean, or island. The student can explain which visual clue helped.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call every blue area an ocean instead of distinguishing oceans, rivers, and lakes. They may confuse physical features with states, countries, cities, or roads. They may think a feature looks exactly like its map symbol.
How to Assess It: Give each student a simple map and access to a globe. Ask them to circle a river and mountain on the map, then point to an ocean and continent on the globe.

Lesson moves

Mold a mountain, river, lake, and island in clay, then sketch and label how each would look from above on a map.
Show the same place on a wall map and globe, then ask, “What physical features can you find on both?”
Play Feature Hunt: call out river, mountain, lake, ocean, or island, and students cover matching examples on laminated maps.
Use a Florida road map to locate the peninsula, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and nearby lakes that travelers might cross.

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