Search every subject world, from Preschool to Grade 12. The first five courses of every subject path are free.
8 courses
Geography · Grade 1
Learners meet the three helpers on every map: the title, the symbols and the key. They use a key to find places on picture maps of a made-up town, describe where things are using landmarks and location words, and finish by making a key for their own map.
Geography · Grade 1
Learners meet north, south, east and west on a compass rose, use them to tell where places are on picture maps, and move step by step on grid maps of a make-believe park. They finish by using the sun, which seems to rise in the east and set in the west, as a natural direction helper.
Geography · Grade 1
Learners read a map of a make-believe school to find rooms and exits, explore the goods and services that neighborhood places provide, learn what each part of an address means using made-up addresses (and why real addresses stay private), and see how neighborhoods change over time.
Geography · Grade 1
Learners name the shapes of the land (mountain, hill, valley, plain) and the kinds of water (ocean, lake, river, pond), tell salt water from fresh water, and tell islands from peninsulas on simple grid maps. They then find four real places on a world map (the Pacific Ocean, the Rocky Mountains, Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River) and explain why so many towns and cities grow up beside water.
Geography · Grade 1
Learners describe weather with four parts (temperature, rain or snow, wind and clouds), meet three weather tools and read a thermometer marked in tens, and read a class weather record to count and compare days. They finish by choosing clothes, activities and travel plans that fit the weather, and by learning simple, widely taught weather-safety rules.
Geography · Grade 1
Learners discover the needs every community shares (food, water, shelter, ways to get around and work), then visit three real cities far away: Venice in Italy, built on islands with canals; Cairo in Egypt, beside the Nile with desert all around; and Tokyo in Japan, an enormous city of trains. They find each country on a world map and compare these cities respectfully with a U.S. town.
Geography · Grade 1
Learners discover that every map has a job: park maps, bus route maps, zoo maps and weather maps each show different things. They read a grid map of a make-believe park by counting squares and using directions, compare two maps of the same park made for different jobs, and practice choosing the map that answers a question.
Geography · Grade 1
Learners find the barriers and helps along a route (stairs and ramps, high curbs and curb cuts, elevators, crosswalks and wide, smooth paths), read accessibility symbols on map keys, and plan and compare routes on grid maps by counting blocks and avoiding barriers. They finish by explaining a route choice with evidence from the map, so that a route works for everyone.
