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MYP Unit Planner: Humanities Mapping

This unit plan is for a 7th year humanities unit on mapping that runs for several weeks. The guiding question is how things are represented in 2 dimensions. The unit will develop students' memory, technical mapping skills, model making, teamwork, communication, and reflection. Students will learn about mapping human activities, recreational maps, landscape features in 2D, and how humans have surveyed and mapped the natural environment. They will work on map skills like scale, direction, grid references, and identifying locations from photographs. Assessment will cover criteria like skills, knowledge, communication and thinking. Activities include making maps of the school area, a treasure hunt, scale drawings, grid references, compass work and continent/ocean worksheets.

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MYP Unit Planner: Humanities Mapping

This unit plan is for a 7th year humanities unit on mapping that runs for several weeks. The guiding question is how things are represented in 2 dimensions. The unit will develop students' memory, technical mapping skills, model making, teamwork, communication, and reflection. Students will learn about mapping human activities, recreational maps, landscape features in 2D, and how humans have surveyed and mapped the natural environment. They will work on map skills like scale, direction, grid references, and identifying locations from photographs. Assessment will cover criteria like skills, knowledge, communication and thinking. Activities include making maps of the school area, a treasure hunt, scale drawings, grid references, compass work and continent/ocean worksheets.

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MYP unit planner

MYP Subject Area Humanities Year 7

Unit Title Mapping

Guiding question How are things represented in 2 dimensions? Number of


weeks

Approaches to learning: Developing memory strategies, technical skills (use of maps), 3 dimensional model making,
team work, communicational skills, personal reflection.

Areas of interaction: Mapping human activities, use of maps in recreational activities, recognition of landscape
features in 2D, how man has surveyed and represented the natural environment.

Learning Objectives Learning Activities MYP Assessment


o Use of scale, direction, local features, use of o Humanities Passport Criteria A, B, C, and D
a key, Bearings, 6 and 4 fig grid references.
o Sketch mapping o Local map of area and campus map (how Criteria B and C
o The use of the atlas we get to school).
o Using the correct indexes to find maps and
places. o Treasure hunt and tour of campus. Criteria C
o Location of major oceans and continents
o Location of equator and tropics o Use of symbols (link to technology and
o Longitude and Latitude English)
o recognition of basic landforms
o Contour lines
Criteria C and D
o Calculating gradients o Scale drawings of body parts
o Drawing cross sections o Scale maps and plans of the classroom.
o Making their own maps. Criteria A and B
o Recognizing locations on maps from o Grid reference work sheets
photographs. o Compass and bearing exercises
o Describe and introduce them selves. Criteria C
o Describe a route to follow on a map. o Continent and Ocean worksheet
o Personal Glossary o Collins/Longmans student atlas
o Atlas Quiz
Criteria B and D
o Relief and contour exercise
o Contour model of island.
Criteria A and B
o Dodd T.A. ‘Mapping Skills’ Oxford
o Various mapping exercises Criteria A, B and C
o End of unit test
o End of unit review

Resources Interdisciplinary/cross-curricular links Information communication technology

Atlases Math – Grid references, coordinates, Production of a Humanities passport


Teacher designed resources gradients, Scale, Direction. using word.
‘Foundations of Geography’
www.geographyjim.org Art – Sketch mapping. Use of digital camera for passport
portrait and photographs of models
Technology – Model making. Use of produced for portfolio.
symbols.

Language – Descriptive writing.


Expansion and use of specific
terminology.

English – Use of symbols


EAL support action Learning support action Comments on this unit by the teacher

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