Lesson plan (English)
Subject: What is the purpose of a map and a plan?
Author: Zyta Sendecka
Target group
4th grade student of elementary school (new core curriculum).
Core curriculum
Cele kształcenia – wymagania ogólne
I. Wiedza.
1. Opanowanie podstawowego słownictwa przyrodniczego (biologicznego, geograficznego, z elementami słownictwa fizycznego i chemicznego).
3. Poznanie planów i map jako źródeł informacji geograficznych.
Treści nauczania – wymagania szczegółowe
I. Sposoby poznawania przyrody. Uczeń:
5. wymienia różne źródła wiedzy o przyrodzie;
6. korzysta z różnych źródeł wiedzy o przyrodzie.
II. Orientacja w terenie. Uczeń:
3. podaje różnice między planem a mapą;
4. rysuje plan różnych przedmiotów;
Lesson objective
The students give the differences between a plan and a map.
The criteria for success
you will explain what a plan and a map are for;
you will indicate how a plan differs from a map.
Key competences
communication in the mother tongue;
communication in foreign languages;
mathematical competence and basis competences in science and technology;
digital competence;
learning to learn;
social and civic competences.
Methods/forms of work
Talk, direct observation, working with the text and with the film.
Individual activity and activity in groups.
Teaching aids
abstract;
interactive whiteboard or traditional blackboard;
tablets/computers;
various plans and maps;
orange;
marker pen;
knife.
Lesson plan overview
Introduction
The teacher specifies the subject, the lesson objectives in a language the student understands, and the criteria for success.
Realization
The teacher asks the students what a map and a plan is and what they are for. The students give free choice answers.
The students compare their answers with the information included in the abstract (they read the fragments “What a map is” and “What a plan is”). The teacher asks the students to define both terms.
With participation of volunteer students, the teacher performs the experiment aimed at checking whether the sphere surface can be shown on a plane (following the instructions included in “Observation 1”).
The teacher announces a movie „Map on oranges”. He instructs his pupils to write a research question and a hypothesis in the form provided in the abstract. Then he plays the video and the students note their observations and conclusions. The teacher points the person who shares his insights and explains the reasonableness of the conclusions noted.
The teacher randomly divides the students into groups. Each team receives a set of different maps and plans. The students are to divide the material they received into two sets: maps and plans.
The teacher asks the students to give the characteristics (criteria) they have followed in creating the sets – writes them on the board.
The students analyse the interactive illustration presenting various map types.
Students do interactive exercise no. 1 and interactive exercise no. 2 in the form of an individual activity.
Summary
The teacher asks the selected students to finish the following sentence: “In today's lesson I have learned...” .
The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson
Terms
mapa – odwzorowanie powierzchni Ziemi lub jej fragmentu przedstawione na płaszczyźnie
plan – rzut przedmiotu, pomieszczenia lub terenu widzianego z góry, różniący się od mapy tym, że zwykle przedstawia mały obszar
Texts and recordings
What is the purpose of a map and a plan?
If you look at the surface of the Earth from a great height, you will see houses, streets, fields and forests. A plan depicts a small area or another object viewed from above after applying appropriate reduction in size. Plans usually show small areas, e.g., cities, villages or even individual neighborhoods and buildings. On a plan we can see, in great detail, the area we are interested in. Its surface is often divided into squares marked with letters and numbers. This makes it easier to find, for example, the street or other places you are looking for. On the back of a plan there is usually a list of streets and other characteristic points of a given town or area.
A map is the image of the Earth's surface (or part of it) seen from above, which is depicted in reduced size on a plane and by means of graphic symbols. Contrary to a plan, it can show both large areas, e.g., countries, continents or the entire surface of the Earth, and small areas, e.g., villages. Unlike a plan, a map always has a graticule. Its upper edge usually represents the north. However, it is difficult to present all the objects on a map, as it would become completely illegible. If you want to get a more detailed picture, you use plans.
Because our planet has a shape similar to that of a sphere, it is not possible to present its surface perfectly on a plane. Distortions, such as in the shape of continents, can therefore occur on maps showing large areas.
A map can depict various objects, phenomena or even processes. These can include, for example, land relief, location of fields, forests and houses, as well as the location of industrial plants and areas where different species of animals and plants can be found.
A plan is an image of a small area seen from above with an appropriate reduction in size.
A map differs from a plan in that it contains a graticule and is usually oriented so that its upper edge determines the north.