Map Skills Sub Plan (No Prep): Time Zones Flight Board, Grades 5-8 Geography

Students run the departures board for a made-up airline. A simple strip map shows the 24 time zones, each 15 degrees wide (the two zones beside the date line are drawn as half zones, and the packet says so), with the International Date Line and ten made-up cities. For each of 6 flights, students work out the local arrival time and day, including one flight that crosses the date line and lands on an earlier day. Then they answer 3 dispatcher questions about the date line, a phone call across zones and a flight time puzzle.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a suggested 30-point grading guide
• 6 files in all. Print only: no slides, no tech, no atlas, no scissors.

Answer key included

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