Communities and Mapping ...

Some of Learning Goals are:
-describe some of the ways in which people make use of natural and built features and services in the local community and what might happen if these features and services did not exist
-identify some services and service-related occupations in their community and describe how they meet people’s needs, including their own needs
-identify some of the natural and built features of their community (e.g., rivers, lakes, parks, roads, stores, houses, apartment buildings, libraries, schools, arenas, recreation centres, places of worship)
-identify some distinct areas in the local community (e.g., residential areas, commercial areas, high-traffic areas, different areas within the school), and describe some of the characteristics of these areas
-describe the location of some significant places in their community, using                                                              relative location (e.g., near, far, up, down), relative distance (e.g., close,                                                                  far,farther), and relative direction (e.g., right, left, in front, behind)
-demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of a map (e.g., title,                                                                 symbols in the legend, direction, scale, and colour) when reading and                                                                  constructing simple maps showing places that are significant to them (e.g., their                                                      classroom, the school, their immediate neighbourhood)
-demonstrate the ability to construct simple maps of places they have visited