Maps: home to school path with a key · Classroom

1. Hook

How to do this lesson online

Tap Read the lesson aloud (or a grown-up reads).
Look at the pictures. Follow the numbered steps.
Do the tap-and-try lab on this page. Do not skip it.
Fill the short answers with a grown-up nearby.
Do the quiz. Then teach it back in your own words.

You are at home on a computer or tablet. Everything you need is on this page.

Today's puzzle

Draw your path from home to school. What do you pass on the way?

Then: lab → guided → quiz → teach it back. The lab is the lesson, not a decoration.

2. Teach

What you're learning

Today we learn: Maps: home to school path with a key.

Standards alignment: C3 Framework D2.Geo (K-2) · D3 Evaluating Sources (domain-level; works with any state’s standards)

STEM in this lesson

Dates, maps, and sources are data. This week's job: Maps: home to school path with a key.

Hold onto these

A route is the path you take from one place to another.
Map symbols are small pictures that stand for real things: a tree for a park, a cross for a hospital.
A key (legend) tells what each symbol means.

This week’s lesson

Landmarks are things that help you know where you are: a big tree, a red store, a bridge.

Use direction words: left, right, straight, north, south.

Watch one worked example

Start: home (a house symbol).
Go straight 2 blocks.
Turn left at the park (tree symbol).
Pass the library (book symbol).
End: school (flag symbol)!

Now you try — with me

Draw your route with at least 3 symbols and a key.

The usual mistake

Using symbols without a key, so no one knows what they mean.

Why this shows up in real life

Bus drivers and delivery drivers follow routes.

No classroom teacher today — this page is the lesson. A grown-up sits nearby. Model once, wait 10–20 seconds, then let the child try.

Quick check · from this week’s lesson

Tap the answer that fits. Every item comes from this week’s lesson.

Your work — type it here

Name who, when, and where. Then one cause.

1. A tree symbol might mean a

2. Another name for a key

3. Opposite of left

4. A book symbol might mean a

3. Guided practice

Try these with me — type the missing word, then check.

The path from one place to another is a

The box that explains symbols is the

Things that help you know where you are are

Reveal the thinking

Symbols + key + directions = a useful map.

4. Independent practice

Work the set. Check when finished — this is practice (mastery quiz is next).

5. Mastery check

Scored quiz — results save to your gradebook.

A true story, in order

History is what really happened — with a first, a next, and a last. Not a cartoon ending. Today: Maps: home to school path with a key.

Timeline / map labTap first → next → last. Point to a place if there is one.Know these factsDates and names you can check — flag, family, town, map.Tell the story backOne true sentence in order. A grown-up listens.

Classroom · Today · Gradebook

A grown-up sits nearby. This page is the teacher. A grown-up sits nearby. This page is the teacher.

6. Reflection / teach-back

Teach-back: Explain Maps: home to school path with a key in your own words. Give one example and name the usual mistake.

Your teach-back