Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Map Reading Activity #1
At this site from Enchanted Learning, students can use this printable worksheet and then follow the directions given and practice their map reading skills.
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Geoscience Australia: Map Reading Guide: How to Use Topographic Maps [Pdf]
A topographic map can be challenging to read. This guide explains how to decipher one and how to use a magnetic compass to orient yourself to the landscape. It also explains how to use GPS coordinates.
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Georgia Perimeter College: Concept Mapping
This resource provides detailed instruction on how to create concept maps, appropriate for older students who have never been introduced to concept mapping. It provides clear steps and an example of a partial concept map.
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La Rue Literacy Exercises: Reading a Map: Quiz 12
In this quiz, students are given sections of a map with locations like the school, post office, back, etc. They are asked questions about directions from one place to the other.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Maps, Time, and World History
Learn how map projections and chronological constructs are used in the study of world history and help us to understand and interpret the past. Part of a larger site on world history, this unit on maps offers complete reading,...
Read Works
Read Works: A School Map
[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...
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Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes
[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...
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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.
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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.
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Ordnance Survey: Map Zone: Measuring Distance
Read how to measure distance on maps using straight lines, string, or a ruler in order to strengthen students' mapping skills.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Mapping the New World
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students study two 17th-century maps of Virginia and think...
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Ordnance Survey: Map Zone: Relief and Contour Lines
Discover how to read and show height on maps using relief and contour lines.
Read Works
Read Works: Maps
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about maps and how they are used. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: How to Draw a Map
[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.
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Read Works: John Wesley Powell Maps the Grand Canyon
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read natural historian John Wesley Powell and his men who worked to create a map of the Grand Canyon. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De Witt
Simeon de Witt created his star map in 1780 after studying European star maps and the skies. His is the 'oldest surviving Anglo-American star map.' Read about the history of star maps, a biography of Simeon de Witt, and the influence his...
Read Works
Read Works: Mapping the West: The Journey of Lewis and Clark
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Lewis and Clark exploring the Louisiana Purchase. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Treasure Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little boy who goes on a treasure hunt through the park. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Variety of Maps
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about many different types of maps and the people who make them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: After the Floods
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about a horrific flood that devastated parts of Pakistan in 2010. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Californio to American: A Study in Cultural Change
This site has a instructional activity about the ranching industry, creation of California towns and the changes over time. Contains information, inquiry question, historical context, maps, readings, and images.
Curated OER
History Matters: Making Sense of Maps
Very detailed site from History Matters containing an explanation of how to read maps and understand them. An excellent resource for teachers. The site covers how to begin, how to use a scale, how to create a flat map for a round world,...
British Council
British Council Go4 English for Arabic Speakers: Stories
A collection of 20-25 animated stories designed to teach children English. Children can read as they watch and listen, then play a game to see how much they understood. Includes original stories on topics of interest to students...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Catherine, Called Birdy
Cross-curricular online resource on the book "Catherine Called Birdy," by Karen Cushman. Includes discussion questions and engaging learning activities.