Latitude and longitude are important map tools to locate an exact place in the world, including the exact position of your own community . Using latitude and longitude, you will have the chance in this lesson to find your community and other places on maps.
What divides the earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What is the main line of longitude?
What do lines of latitude measure?
Name two ways that longitude differs from latitude.
Why do you need to know both latitude and longitude when locating a place?
Which directions do lines of longitude run?
What divides the earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
What are the parts of the earth called that the Prime Meridian divides?
Which directions do lines of latitude run?
What do lines of longitude measure?
What are the parts of the earth called that the equator divides?
What is the main line of latitude?
What symbol is used for degrees?
What symbols are used for the directions?
Learners will locate the lines of latitude and longitude on a map.
Materials
map pencils, blackline map master
Books
Social Studies text book
Read the student notes to learn about latitude and longitude on a map.
Print a copy of the map.
Read the symbols on a map for latitude.
Locate the Equator on a map and color it red with a map pencil.
Locate 10 degrees south on a map and color it orange with a map pencil.
Find 20 degrees north latitude on a map and color it green with a map pencil.
Find 20 degrees south latitude on a map and color it yellow with a map pencil.
Find 10 degrees north latitude on a map and color it blue with a map pencil.
Locate the South Pole at 90 degrees south latitude on a map and color it purple with a map pencil.
Locate the North Pole at 90 degrees north latitude on a map and color it purple with a map pencil.
Locate the Prime Meridian on a map and color it red with a map pencil.
Find 10 degrees east longitude on a map and color it orange with a map pencil.
Find 20 degrees east longitude on a map and color it yellow with a map pencil.
Find 10 degrees west longitude on a map and color it blue with a map pencil.
Find 20 degrees west longitude on a map and color it green with a map pencil.
Locate 60 degrees east longitude on a map and name the two continents the line crosses.
Locate 75 degrees west longitude on a map and name the two continents that it crosses.
Locate Australia on a map and name the hemisphere in which it is located.
Locate North and South America on a map and name the hemisphere in which they are located.
On a map find and name the continents that are in both the eastern and western hemispheres.
On a map find and name the continents that are in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
Go over the Engaging Questions found in the Teacher's Guide to this lesson.
Make a copy of the blackline map master and give each student a copy. The lines of latitude and longitude may be colored on one copy or a copy of the map may be used for each.
Students need red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and purple map pencils ready to use.
Print and give each student a copy of the student guide.
Share this memory device with your students: The lines of latitude go across like the rungs of a ladder and the lines of longitude run up and down like the sides of a ladder.
Duration: 30 minutes
You will learn to locate lines of latitude and lines of longitude and that special lines divides the earth into hemispheres.
A grid system is useful, but it cannot be used to find exact locations. A special kind of grid system is used for the entire earth to locate any city, town, or village. Two sets of lines that crisscross are used in this system. Lines of latitude and lines of longitude are the names of the grid lines.
Lines of latitude run east and west around the earth. Any two lines of latitude are always the same distance apart. The Equator (ee kwayt ur) is the main line of latitude. The Equator is exactly halfway between the North and South Poles. It divides the earth into two equal parts called hemishperes (HEM ih sfihrz). The Northern hemisphere is the nothern half. The Southern hemisphere is the southern half.
The Equator is marked zero degrees because it is the main line of latitude. All other lines of latitude measure distance from the Equator in degrees. Lines of latitude north of the Equator are called lines of North latitude. The latitude for the North Pole is 90 degrees north latitude. The small circle between the number and the letter on a map is the symbol for degrees. The letters N, S, E, and W are used as symbols for the directions.
Lines of latitude south of the Equator are called lines of South latitude. The South Pole is 90 degrees south latitude.
The second part of the grid system that is used to locate places on earth are lines of longitude. Lines of longitude are between the North Pole and South Pole. They run north and south. Line of longitude are not the same distance apart everywhere. They are far apart at the Equator and move closer together until they meet at the poles.
The main line of longitude is the Prime Meridian. It is numbered zero degrees longitude. All lines of longitude measure distance in degrees from the Prime Meridian. Lines of longitude east of the Prime Meridian are called lines of east longitude. Lines that are west of the Prime Meridian are called lines of west longitude.The Prime Meridian and 180 degrees longitude form a full circle that divides the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.
Print a copy of the map master included with this tool and have red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and purple map pencils ready to use.
Print a copy of the student guide for the learner or use it online. The student may work independently or be guided through the steps.
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