Map Skills Sub Plan (No Prep): Topographic Map Trail Planner, Grades 5-8

Your students plan a hike in made-up hill country. On a contour map with a stated 50-foot interval, they read spot heights, find the summit and a depression, and compare two trails. Then they build an elevation profile: 11 tick marks along a line across the map become 11 points on a printed grid, joined into a side view of the land.

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 a pencil and a ruler (or a scrap of paper).

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