This lessons explores the different ways we can view our world along with the different parts of a map or globe.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson map skills are reinforced by identifying physical features in Germany. Mountains, rivers, lakes, and land elevation are discussed. Political maps identify population and cities.

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.

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

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer is a word map helping students with building vocabulary. Students are asked to define, use the word in a sentence, give a synonym and draw a picture of the word. This is...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Overview: In this lesson, students will learn the basics about how tornadoes are formed, and when and where they are most likely to occur. They will learn that the United States is the country most...

This is a lesson activity which is written to engage visual and kinesthetic learners in their study on explorers: Leif Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, Erik the Red, Vasco Da Gama, John Cabot, Marco Polo, and Ferdinand Magellan.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to understand Colonial American regional differences by applying knowledge of places, resources, economics, land climate, products and trading centers. Extension of knowledge to include...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart was made a culminating activity for a unit of study on mapping. It starts with a video on the sky, stars and then a brief look at the universe to earth with images then addresses are...

How can you celebrate St. Patrick's Day with your students? Come and explore this informative resource that features several links to St. Patrick's Day activities, poems, and more. Includes PDF resources (require Adobe Reader).

Try to locate famous landmarks using latitude and longitude coordinates in this interactive classroom activity.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a labeling activity and Activote questions pertaining to the North American regions.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to use with the story, Flight, by Robert Burleigh, in the Scott Foresman Reading Series for third grade. Students will preview and predict what the story will be about. The...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart providing a simple introductory lesson to the study of continents prompting further map work away from the computer.