Flat Stanley Map Lesson

For my lesson, I would create a google map to go along with the story Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. In the story, a board falls on a boy named Stanley, making him flat. Stanley then mails himself around the world in envelopes to visit his friends.

For my lesson, my students would first read the story. They would then create paper portraits of themselves and name them "Flat (their name)". Each student would be asked to mail several copies of their flat self around the world to different cities or states. They would include a letter asking the recipients to send a return letter addressed to our class and perhaps include a photo or postcard of something from their part of the world. We would then document all of the locations that we received letters from on our google map by saving the locations. The map of all of the locations could be displayed on the SMART board each day or week to show the locations on the map that go along with the letters and photos we would be reading or looking at. We could then also interact with our map by going to street view or weather to explore the different places our flat selves have visited. The map below is just an example of a world map with several locations marked. Our map would be similar but would contain many more pegs.



View Nairobi in a larger map