Students continued their work on Grids and Indexes this week,
finishing pages 24 and 25 and reviewing the answers together.
After indexes were discussed, students added an index to the maps of
their bedrooms.
Classes then played a grid game on the chalkboard. Groups were split
into two teams. Team members were called on to come to the board to
draw--in the appropriate grid box, as dictated by the teacher--their
favorite animal or fruit. This game combined grid use as well as
directional (Cardinal and Intermediate) map skills.
Third graders then put their knowledge into physical action. Classes
headed outside to an area in which the teacher had used chalk to draw
a compass rose and a giant grid. Students reviewed the compass rose
and the grid before being instructed to run together to a given grid
box, again, using both grid and directional skills.
At the end of this activity, 4-5 students were dispatched to grid
boxes, leaving the remaining students to dictate an index using the
students' names (Indexes are always in alphabetical order).
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