Making maps and the…

1. Making maps and the… KindraStraatman EDEL 2200-001

2. Social Studies Curriculum • Main Curriculum Tie: Social Studies - 4th GradeStandard 1 Objective 2Analyze how physical geography affects human life in Utah

3. What was the Pony Express? • The Pony Express was the first mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra. • Went from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. • Became the west’s most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph it ran from April 3, 1860 to October 1861. • Tied Californiaclosely with the Union just before the American Civil War. • The messages were carried by horseback riders in relays to stations across the Western United States. • It reduced the time for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about 10 days!

4. The Pony express went through Utah and was organized in 2 months and involved… 120 riders, 184 stations, 400 horses

5. On the Pony Express their path was marked, how is your path similar? • Let’s watch the Pony Express video from This Day in History http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pony-express-debuts • How do you get to school each day? Is it a well-known or marked path?

6. We need maps today, just like they did back then! • We will be making maps to show the routes we take to travel home from school. We can do bus routes or walking, it’s your choice! • Materials we’ll need from our classroom bins: • paper • colored pencils • pencils • rulers

7. Step #1 • Bring a small notebook and a pencil with you on your next walk or bus trip from home to school. • Jot down the names of important streets along the way. • Add landmarks such as parks, stores, and fire and police stations. • Keep it simple, too much detail on your map will be confusing!

8. Step #2 • Take out your notebooks from yesterday with your map information. • Mark your route home to school with a bright red colored line. (Bring an example to show the class)

9. Step #3 • Add a compass rose to your map! • A compass rose shows directions North, East, South, and West. • Acronym to help you remember: Never Eat Soggy Waffles!

10. Step #4 • Draw a map key that shows what any symbols mean. • You can draw a red brick building that = school, a gas pump=gas station, a swing=a park. • Use your land marks that you jotted down in your notebook.

11. Step #5 • When your map is colored and complete we will split up into our table groups for a table share. • Each person will take a turn describing “out-loud” to their table their route to school. • For example: “I go west when I leave my house, then I walk a block past a park, etc.”

12. Step #6 • We’re going to make one big-gigantic class map! • We’ll combine all of our individual maps to create a large class map showing everyone’s route home from school. • We will put a compass rose and map key just like your smaller maps. • Lots of you will have similar symbols on your maps and we will use the most common ones to include on our class map. • We will hang this map up in our classroom!

13. Conclusion • What was the pony express? Did they have a specific path that they followed? • Do you follow a route home from school everyday? • Give me an example of a landmark. • What is a compass rose? I’m going to write a cross on the board and I want you to tell me the four different directions. • What was the acronym I taught you to remember? • I need 3 people up on the board to help me draw 3 symbols in a map key! (Remember to put a box around your symbols)