South American Adventures


This lesson plan contains two lesson plans and additional information about South America including worksheets on different topics. In the first lesson, students will become familiar with physical maps and their functions, identify key mountain peaks of the Andes mountains of South America and use algebraic thinking to solve equations using positive and negative numbers. In the second lesson, students will become familiar with political maps and their functions, identify capital cities of South American countries and use algebraic thinking to solve equations using positive and negative numbers.

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