Winter Garden Heritage Foundation
Walk through Our Community Field Trip
Classroom Exercise
Classroom Exercise: Map Exercise
Grade levels appropriate: First and Second
Objectives: What will students know and be able to do as a result of this lesson?
Students will use a map of downtown Winter Garden to:
- Identify map symbols, street names, and locate specific buildings and sites;
- Trace the route they will follow on their Winter Garden field trip.
Sunshine State Standards:
SS.B.1.1.2 The student uses simple maps, globes, and other three-dimensional models to identify and locate places.
SS.B.1.1.2.2.1 The student knows map legends, coordinates, key symbols, and cardinal and intermediate directions to
read simple maps.
SS.B.1.1.2.2.2 The student understands the elements of scale, distance, relative location and spatial relationships.
Materials needed: Map of WG
Map Exercise Questions
Introductory/background information for teachers and students:
While on the Winter Garden field trip, students and chaperones will walk from the parking lot to two different
buildings and along the West Orange Trail. The map of Winter Garden shows the buildings and several sites that the
class will see on the field trip. Before the trip, students can locate the sites and map out the path between each
site. Students can also bring the map with them on the field trip.
Lesson process:
Students, working alone or in small groups, study the map and answer questions on the Classroom Map Exercise sheet.
Reflection/follow-up activities: Provide key questions that could be used after this experience in
classroom discussion, writing a review, reflective journal entries, or connection to other subjects.
Why would someone visiting a city for the first time need a map?
Additional materials: What other activities or materials would help teachers prepare students for this
experience, and how can they be accessed? (Print, website, library, other.)
Scott Foresman Social Studies, People and Places - 2nd grade textbook, pages 20-21, 'Read a City Map'
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