Maps and Globes Unit for Special Education with digital activities

Maps and Globes Unit contains over 90 pages and 17 google slides of material specifically designed for students with special learning needs, especially autism. This unit on maps and globes addresses the characteristics of maps and globes in a simplified but rigorous way for students with diverse learning needs to make meaningful and authentic connections to the material. There are many opportunities for students to engage in repeated information on maps and globes. This repetition encourages a true understanding of maps and globes. Finally, many of the maps and globes activities and assessments include more than one version, suggestions for differentiation and options for presentation.

→ This unit now includes digital versions of most of the activities. There are 17 google slides and movie versions of both books.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS UNIT DOES NOT TEACH HOW TO READ A MAP BUT IS AN EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO WHAT THE KEY FEATURES ARE OF MAPS AND GLOBES.

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Maps and Globes Unit Includes:

• 7 day lesson plan with daily group activities
• 2 books on key features of maps and globes (includes movie version)
• Voice recorded power point shows for both books
• 2 facts sheets on maps and globes and suggestions for use to go with each book
• 2 circle maps (includes digital version)
• Venn diagram activity with color-coded option (includes digital version)
• Labeling activities (includes digital version)
• Writing Prompt: Where I Would Go… (includes digital version)
• Map painting activity
• Easy cooking/snack activity
• 3 version of an assessment (includes digital version)

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Much of what I have learned about curriculum development is incorporated in these units. For example, do not be afraid of repetition. It is critical that students with significant disabilities get to experience material over several days to be able to fully assimilate what is being taught. Also, adding visual supports to your printables and class activities helps students be able to pay more attention to the content you are presenting rather than the mechanics of what is expected. Finally, ask questions. Good questions!! Regardless of the material, if we can ask students good questions it will push them to think more deeply than before.

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