Materials

• Maps of the students’ home area
• Teacher-prepared worksheet instructing students to identity local, regional, and national places and their spatial relationships, as well as map orientation
  

Instructional Activities

1. Review information from previous sessions.
   
   
2. Explain the concepts of relative location and map orientation. Use examples in the immediate vicinity to demonstrate the concepts.
   
   
3. Display a map of the students’ locality, and ask them to identify the spatial relationships of places, using relative location. Have the class orient the map to their current location.
   
   
4. After students demonstrate as a group their understanding of the concepts of relative location and map orientation, distribute the teacher-prepared worksheets for students to complete individually in class or as homework.