City Tour (Coordinates)

Go sightseeing in fictional cities all over the world. Learn about coordinates on a graph by navigating around these cities on a grid-like city map. Some landmarks are shown on the map. For others, you are only given the coordinates. Can you find all of them?

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • Describe the position of a point on a city map based on its avenue and street.
  • Write coordinates as an ordered pair.
  • List the coordinates of a location on a grid.
  • Given the coordinates of a point, move to the correct location on a grid.
VOCABULARY:
  • coordinates, horizontal axis, ordered pair, origin, vertical axis

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