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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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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Task Card: City Tour Scavenger Hunt
This task card can be used for remote learning or in class as a small group, a station, or individual act... (more)ivity. In this activity, students will participate in a scavenger hunt as they navigate through different cities looking for specific landmarks and writing the coordinates as an ordered pair.
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Task Card: City Tour
This task card can be used for remote learning or in class as a small group, a station, or individual act... (more)ivity. In this activity, students will describe the position of a point on a city map based on its avenue and street, and write coordinates as an ordered pair.
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Math
Vocabulaire : Tour de ville (coordonnées)
CityTourVocabF - French Translation
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Math
Exploration par l’étudiant: Tour de ville (coordonnées)
CityTourSE - French Translation
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
City Tour (Coordinates) Vocabulary Sheet-French
This is the French translation of the Vocabulary Sheet
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Math
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User Recommendations (5):
Activity B is very challenging and great fun-6th grade. All the students were very involved and enjoyed finding the treasures
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The students loved finding out what was at each location.
Recommended for: 4th Grade, 5th Grade MathGizmo User from International, unspecified
This Gizmo helped students understand the real world application of using a coordinate grid plane.
Recommended for: 4th Grade MathGizmo User from Florida