Geographic
Alliance of Iowa
UNDERSTANDING LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
by Dr. Kay E. Weller, GAI Coordinator
Before class, the teacher has chosen cities from around the world and puts their
names on slips of paper in a basket. The cities chosen should be from a variety
of geographical locations. The students will draw a city from the basket and look
up the absolute location of that city. Then the student will use an atlas to learn
something about that city (climate, vegetation, relative location, etc.). The
student's task is to find another place in the world that has similar characteristics.
This can be presented in a paper or as an oral presentation.
