Map Skills Sub Plan (No Prep): Longitude and Latitude Rescue, Grades 5-8

You are the coast guard dispatcher on the night shift, and six distress calls just came in. Each one gives a latitude and longitude that falls between the printed grid lines, so students count the small 1-degree ticks on the map's edge to place every call. They log its hemispheres, ocean and nearest continent, plan the order the rescue ship should sail, and then read the coordinates of three weak signals straight off the map.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages: a read-aloud script and a timed plan for one 40-45 minute class
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a suggested 30-point grading guide
• PDF plus editable Word; print only

Answer key included

Students need only the packet and a pencil.

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