BBC
Bbc: Landscapes: Scotland: Map Skills: Scale
Lesson for elementary students on map skills uses a map of Scotland to teach about the concept of scale.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Maps and Me
Lesson to reinforce basic map skills. Learners discuss Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney, work in groups to create maps of the classroom, and use these maps to hunt for treasure.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Primary Technology Maps
This hands-on, inquiry-based lesson combines maps skills which include identifying map elements, applying an understanding of cardinal directions, interpreting resource maps, and identifying a location. Learners will have the opportunity...
BBC
Bbc: Landscapes: Map Skills: Symbols and Keys
A guide for young learners to understand reading maps and their keys.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Final Project Map Skills
This lessons explores the different ways we can view our world along with the different parts of a map or globe.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Maps and Geography
A comprehensive learning module on maps that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students learn about map symbols, cardinal directions, and...
Other
Map Zone: Compasses and Directions
Sharpen map skills by exploring these map pages. Learn about the compass rose, different norths, and how to use a compass.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Maps
Lesson designed to introduce maps and the cardinal directions. After listening to the teacher read aloud or tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, students retell the story and use cutouts of landmarks and arrows to create a map of...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Birdseye View, Mapping
Lesson that helps students understand that maps show a "birds-eye view" of a place. Students stand above a teacher-made model and discuss how the objects in the model looked from above. Then students draw objects from a birds-eye view,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: Map It
Explore different types of maps and how different things are represented on maps in this media gallery from WGBH. Maps are used to help locate different places and different things. Map symbols are representations of larger things in the...
Other
Edte.ch: Maths Maps
Maths Maps is a collaborative project where participants use Google maps to choose a location within one of the cities highlighted, then create a Math problem about the site. The problems are marked on the map with various colors...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting Our Stories With a Double Bubble Map
Young scholars will identify the similarities and differences between different versions of fictional stories by completing a double bubble map. Included in this lesson are teacher questions, a bubble map printable, a video of a class...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Mapping the Classroom
Learning to use and create maps builds students' spatial thinking skills as well as language skills in the early years. In this lesson, students practice using the language of location and then apply that language when creating a map of...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 1: Using Maps
First graders develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they explore and create maps using map keys, and map symbols. Students engage with the sources to build their map skills.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Map Trap
Lesson to reinforce maps skills and concepts. Students map locations around their school and use world maps to locate major landmarks.
US Mint
United States Mint: In Mr. Lincoln's Shoes [Pdf]
Using the study of President Abraham Lincoln as a guide, students demonstrate basic map skills including cardinal directions and how to use a compass rose.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Curriculum Mapping
Discover more about curriculum mapping when you visit this informative site. Teachers will gain a better understanding of curriculum mapping through this resource.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Geography Unit: Maps
This geography unit is designed to follow the 1st Grade geography skills required in Virginia. Students are expected to use cardinal directions, read map keys and understand map symbols, as well as identify our city and capital.
Other
Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Skills Map for the Arts [Pdf]
Arts education is part of the backbone of the 21st Century skills movement. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills had designed a map that provides examples of collaboration, communication, creativity, innovation, critical thinking,...
Other
Fdlrs: Thinking Maps: Examples From Brevard Public Schools
See examples of the use of the eight graphic organizers from Thinking Maps. These maps help students organize their learning and identify ways to reflect different kinds of text. The several examples from each grade K-6 show how to use...
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Environmental History: Map 9: Conservation, Yosemite Ntl. Park, 1935
Lessons for students K-12 in which they study original map of Yosemite National Park, ca. 1935 and explore appropriate human uses of the environment.
Other
Map Zone: Starting Mapping
Discover the basics of mapping by reading about what maps are, what they provide, how to fold them, and how to use them properly. Content focuses on Great Britain.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Map the Path in My Father's Dragon
Lesson that helps students understand map concepts. After listening to the teacher read aloud each chapter of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, students discuss the book and use a map and general direction terms to describe the...
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