Creating a Map of Movement

What's around the block? Or down the street? Ask your pupils to tap into their map skills by drafting the area around their home and school.

How do you get to school? Using the second page of the instructional activity, you can draw a map of your route to school and paste on images of a scooter, bus, car, or feet.

Spark interest and enhance your pupils' map skills using Matteo Pericoli's book, See the City: the Journey of Manhattan Unfurled. Through Pericoli's illustrations and text, learners explore the East and West...

Arthur and his friends help children explore the concepts of family, community, and diversity in a fun series of activities. From performing peer interviews to mapping out the different places students have lived or visited, this...

First graders are introduced to a variety of maps such as globes, street maps, atlases, and different types of floor plans. The focus of the lesson requires individuals to create their own plan of the classroom using the PowerPoint...

Young cartographers in groups hide treasure at school and then create a map to find it using pattern blocks and tiles. They make paintings with clues to create a visual representation of the location of their treasure. Groups present...

Learners are introduced to the key concepts of maps; direction, pathway/line, shape and symbol. They create the pathways and shapes they have "mapped" out on paper on the floor. They dance along the paths.

Learners create a map of the school and surrounding neighborhood.  In this mapping lesson, students discover their school's location and learn about its past.  Learners use math skills and the steps in the design process to...

Students write directions explaining how to get from one location to another by using a map of their town and use simple maps to identify and locate places.

A teacher-created video to help teach first grade students some mapping basics. Well done and comprehensive. [4:26]