How did the Pilgrims arrive to America? Middle schoolers graph ordered pairs on a coordinate system, connect the points, and discover a mystery picture—the Mayflower.

Concepts

the mayflower, thanksgiving, coordinate pair, graphing points, ordered pairs

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use as homework or give as a fun activity during the week of Thanksgiving
• Give class members the option to use crayons or colored pencils to make their pictures more colorful
• Incorporate into a study of the Mayflower

Classroom Considerations

• Worksheet assumes pupils are familiar with graphing coordinate points on a Cartesian graph

Pros

• Comes with an answer key, instructions, and a Cartesian coordinate system
• Each section of graphing points is broken up in to four parts to avoid the confusion of connecting points

Cons

• None

Common Core

5.G.A.1 6.G.A.3