This document provides instructions and content for a lesson on relative location. It includes tasks for students such as defining relative location, identifying key vocabulary like north and south, and describing the relative location of themselves, other students, classroom items, and areas. Students are asked to watch videos on relative versus absolute location and relative location vocabulary. The document also includes directions for an activity where students use an atlas to determine the relative location of various places by referring to a map and posting their answers.

1. Entry Task:
Google Classroom Post:
1.) Define relative location.
2.) What key vocabulary words do we use to describe
relative location?
3.) Describe the relative location of yourself!

2. Interactive Notebooks:
•Quiz Results
•Mosaic Results

3. Location
• Every point on earth has a specific location.
• Absolute location - the position of a place on the
globe using the grid of longitude and latitude lines.
• Relative location - the location of a place compared
to other places.

4. Video:
• Relative location - the location of a place when
compared to other places.
• What is the difference between relative and absolute
location?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyrbyOPYlfU

5. What vocabulary can we use to describe
relative location?

6. What is the relative location of ___________?
•Call out a students name.
•Call out an item that is located in the classroom.
•Call out an area of the school.
•Call out an area of the community.

7. Relative location vocabulary:
https://www.youtube
.com/watch?v=UeeLi
vQH7Ok

8. What is the relative location of Dubai?

9. What is the relative location of the UAE?

10. Using an Atlas to determine relative location.
•Open your atlas to page _______.
•Teacher calls a location.
•Groups determine the relative location.
•Write the answer on a whiteboard and hold it up.
•Class discusses each location.

11. FIND THE RELATIVE LOCATION
Use an Atlas or Google Maps!
Post answers on google classroom.
• Find the relative location of the following:
• Be sure to use the correct vocabulary terms!
• UAE
• Oman
• Italy
• USA
• Cyprus
• India
• Canada
• Atlantic Ocean