Unit Title: Investigating the world
Lesson No: 3
Outcome/s
4.1 identifies and gathers
geographical information
• distinguish between different
map projections
Lesson Goal: Introduce students to various map projections and test their knowledge
Resources used: Map projections powerpoint, small globes, blank paper, map projections worksheet
Lesson Segment
- Introduction: Reminder about
assignments and introducing
map projections
- Body of lesson: Practical
application of map projections
- Conclusion: Map projections
quiz.
Class: 7F
Date: 15/8/16 Time: 9:50
Quality Teaching elements Teaching Standard
Deep understanding 2 - Know the content and how to
teach it
Focus Area - 2.1Content and
teaching strategies of the teaching
area
Content Organisation/ Teaching procedure
what are map projections and how In the first part of this lesson, the
do they help us understand more teacher will ask what students
about the world around us? how they are going with their
assignments and who has
Students will have an opportunity finished. The teacher will then go
to examine through a hands-on through the structure of the lesson
approach, the 4 map projections and tell the students that the
by wrapping a small globe in lesson will be looking at map
paper representing each of the projections.
projections. This will help students
conceptualise how the sphere The teacher will then go through
shape of a globe can be projected the information in the powerpoint
onto a flat map so maps can be about the different types of map
viewed in an atlas. projections and hand out small
globes and paper. The students
will have a go at making their own
map projections by wrapping the
paper around the globes
representing the 4 map
Students will then fill out a projections.
worksheet based on the
information about map to reinforce student knowledge,
projections. This worksheet will the teacher will hand out a
contain the names of the various worksheet on map projections for
projections and what each one is the students to fill in.
used for.