Going To the 'Movies' With Map Skills

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.

Before maps went mobile, people actually had to learn how to read maps. Pupils look at map elements in order to understand how to read them and locate specific locations. Finally, young cartographers discover how to make aerial maps.

Young pupils develop their mapping skills and knowledge by designing their own islands, using geographic terms and physical features they have learned as features of their work.

Students analyze maps and pictures, complete worksheets, learn map terms, and more. In this maps lesson plan, students learn about the compass rose, map terms, and more.

How is that thing like that other thing? And how are they both like something else? Get specific with a concept map that provides space for a main concept, its attributes, the category in which it belongs, and what other ideas belong in...

Young geographers improve their map skills by practicing locating the cardinal directions on a map, identifying symbols on a map key, and describing where objects on the map are located relative to other locations.

In this map activities instructional activity, students use an outline of the map of West Virginia to add the state capital, major cities, and other state attractions. Students complete 3 activities.

Students convert their physical models of a playground from a previous lesson into a map of the playground that includes a scale and key. They examine and discuss examples of maps, view an image to map photo essay, and create a map using...

Students 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.

Thirds graders reinforce that a map is a drawing that shows what a place looks like from above. They use a map key and symbols to create a map of the school and its neighborhood.