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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Mapping the Brain
Learn about new techniques for mapping the brain and how these new techniques can help researchers build a better undersanding of the brain.
Read Works
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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US Mint
U.s. Mint: Let's Build a Map [Pdf]
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.
Read Works
Read Works: How to Draw a Map Passage & Question Set
[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...
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...
Read Works
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Treasure Hunt
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Capture the Flag
This instructional activity requires students to read maps in order to play the game capture the flag.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Where on Earth Is It?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a preliminary pre-assessment on positional words, before beginning a unit on mapping skills.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Where's Buster?: A u.s. Geography Game About the States
Develop map and directional skills as well as skills in following a series of clues to find which U.S. state Buster is in.
Other
Pbs Teachers: A Place of Our Own: Habitat Map
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Maps Globe Skills
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses landforms, mapping and the Compass Rose. Students can practice using Cardinal Directions and use Activotes.
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