Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

Tracking Flat Stanley

This lesson plan was created by Jennifer Hardee (Essex Elementary, Essex CSD) for students in the 3rd grade. In this lesson plan, students will use relative location, absolute location, and Google Earth to locate and record the places that their Flat Stanley visits.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Language Arts

Reading

Theme

Cultural/Social

Region

None specified

Five Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Common Core Standards

Reading Standards for Literature (RL)

Writing Standards (W)

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments