Mystery+Bottle+Reinforcing+Activity

Students will be able to create a map of their neighborhood/city.
 * // Mystery Bottle Reinforcing Activity: //**
 * __ Objective: __**

// Mystery Bottle // by Kristen Balouch Green Construction Paper Black Strips of Construction Paper Yellow, Red, Brown, Blue, and White Rectangles of Construction Paper Scissors Glue
 * __ Materials Needed: __**


 * __ Procedures: __**
 * 1) Discuss with students how maps work and why they are important.
 * 2) Teacher reads aloud //Mystery Bottle// by Kristen Balouch.
 * 3) Teacher and students will discuss the importance of the use of maps in the story.
 * 4) Ask students to look at their neighborhood or city that night and come back tomorrow with an idea.
 * 5) Students will create maps:
 * 6) Everyone will start with a piece of green construction paper as his or her base.
 * 7) Students will then create a map of their neighborhood or city, based on what they have researched the night before.
 * 8) Black paper-roads, Blue-water, Red, brown, white, yellow-anything else
 * 9) Students should try to make their map as close to scale as possible.

Students will share their maps to the class while the teacher uses a checklist to make sure they have the following items:
 * __ Assessment: __**
 * Their house
 * The school
 * The post office
 * Other items they include

// Kindergarten: // Geography Strand Spatial Thinking and Skills 6. Models and maps represent places 5. Terms related to direction and distance, as well as symbols and landmarks, can be used to talk about the relative location of familiar places.
 * __ Other Ohio Standards: __**

// Grade 2: // Geography Strand Human Systems 9. Interactions among cultures lead to sharing ways of life.


 * __ Tags: __**
 * Culture
 * Families
 * Map making
 * Balouch
 * Travel
 * Cities
 * Landmarks