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Leena’s Region Map Journal

Use a farm field journal and coordinate map layers to find patterns in mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

Grade 4ScienceInteractive · Printable

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students read coordinate map layers to locate mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Students compare Earth-feature locations to describe patterns and differences.
Students support a map-based claim or prediction with coordinate evidence.

How to use

Read Leena’s journal together and review how the coordinates name map locations. Then have students use the map layers and tally data to answer the questions.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

4-ESS2-2

Read maps to find patterns in Earth's features, such as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes.

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Leena’s Region Map Journal

Use map layers and journal data to find patterns in Earth’s features.

Read the field journal

Read Leena’s map journal. Use the map layers and tally table to answer the questions.

Leena’s Region Map Journal

Leena’s class studies Earth’s features with a set of regional maps in the school library. The school is far from the mountains, so the class uses the maps to see where they are. Each map covers the same 6-by-6 grid. The first number in a coordinate tells how far east a place is. The second number tells how far north it is. A map mark shows a location where a feature is found or where an earthquake was recorded during the study period.

On Monday, Leena copied the mountain layer. The mountain marks were at (1, 6), (2, 5), (3, 4), (4, 3), (5, 2), and (6, 1). On Tuesday, she copied the volcano layer. The volcano marks were at (2, 5), (4, 3), (5, 2), and (5, 1). On Wednesday, she copied the earthquake layer. The earthquake marks were at (1, 5), (2, 5), (3, 4), (4, 3), (5, 3), and (6, 2).

Leena made this tally table from the three map layers: mountains—6 marks; volcanoes—4 marks; earthquakes—6 marks. She reminded her class that the earthquake marks show recorded locations during this study period. They do not tell when another earthquake will happen.

On Thursday, Leena placed transparent copies of the layers on top of one another. She checked that the grids had the same direction, size, and coordinate labels before comparing marks. She wanted to describe patterns in the map evidence, not claim that one map caused another feature.

On Leena’s maps, what does the first number in a coordinate tell?