Reading Map Keys, Legends, and Cardinal Directions

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Identify and use map keys, symbols, scales, and intermediate compass directions to navigate maps accurately.

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Geography and Map Skills: Navigating Our World

4th Grade · Social-studies · US-WI-SS

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Use geographic tools, grids, coordinate systems, and thematic maps to locate places and analyze geographic features across Earth.

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SS.Hist3Wisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

Wisconsin students will connect past events, people, and ideas to the present; use different perspectives to draw conclusions; and suggest current implications.

Hist3.aWisconsin Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

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