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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, the basic terminology associated with map are explained in this informational text. A question sheet is available to help students...

A guide to using Khan Academy's MAP Recommended Practice tool to provide personalized practice for students.

Learn about new techniques for mapping the brain and how these new techniques can help researchers build a better undersanding of the brain.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to draw a map. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

In this four-part lesson, students study the map of the Louisiana Purchase and the trail of Lewis and Clark's Expedition. Then, build a classroom map displaying the events of the Westward Expansion.

For this lesson, students will create a character web. Students will use a character from their storybook character for the web.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains how to draw a map. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece tells the story of a little girl who draws a map of the school for her little brother. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.

Today we are picking apart this story and discussing it in great detail so that we can set the foundation for our comparing and contrasting activity on our Day 3 activity.

In this lesson, 1st graders will work with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" Jon Scieszkaby. They will describe the characters, setting, and key details in the story and help the teacher record the details on a circle map.

Lesson plan introduces the concept of maps while providing a forum to practice the skill of navigating using a map.

Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...

Get hands-on with students in building a map with a class. Take students outside to a sandbox and work with them to build a map of campus. Once the map is drawn you can turn their design into a treasure hunt to assess map interpretation.

This lesson requires students to read maps in order to play the game capture the flag.

This collection of resources for children ages 3-8 are drawn from the public television series Let's Learn, a partnership between the WNET Group and the New York City Department of Education. Let's Learn aims to provide our young...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a preliminary pre-assessment on positional words, before beginning a unit on mapping skills.

Develop map and directional skills as well as skills in following a series of clues to find which U.S. state Buster is in.

A thorough interactive program helping students to understand the cardinal directions.

Lesson that helps learners understand maps, map directions, and map symbols. Students use teacher-created maps to locate numbered keys on the playground.

This three-dimensional map activity helps children share about themselves and talk about who they are and where they come from. Good basis for learning about maps, similarities and differences, respect and acceptance of diversity and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses landforms, mapping and the Compass Rose. Students can practice using Cardinal Directions and use Activotes.