Students demonstrate how to locate places on a map using coordinates. In this map skills activity, students work in small groups and select a name from a map index to locate. Students use coordinates to identify the location on a map....

First graders explore Chinese folktales. In this Chinese folktale instructional activity ,students read Chinese folktales, locate China on a map, and color the Chinese flag. Students are given sentence strips to hold and must arrange...

Young scholars practice locating places on a Thomas Brothers map. In this map skills instructional activity, students locate places on the map of where their ancestors are from and then practice finding various community places on a map....

In this finding places and things using maps activity, 1st graders interactively select which map (out of 4) would be used to find the place or thing described.