Making Personalized Map Grids

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.

What do your pupils know about latitude and longitude? Make sure they have a thorough understanding of this topic by completing the comprehensive series of activities included here. Learners simulate latitude and longitude, take notes,...

Young geographers travel back through time with primary source and map analysis and envision Captain John Smith's arrival at the Chesapeake Bay. 

In this map reading activity, students look at a grid map of Maryland, locate 6 sets of coordinates and name the city by each set of coordinates. Students make an index of the 6 cities shown on the grid map.

Young scholars investigate the use of maps and what type to use. In this map lesson plan, students explain what they know about maps: who uses them, their purpose, where to find them, and what is a map. They look at the choice of what...

In this map-making skills worksheet, students follow the instructions to make a map of their classroom using a map grid and then compare them with their classmates.

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.

Students create a map grid system. In this map lesson, students discuss how mapmakers use a grid system to make giving directions easier. Students learn how the grid system works and create a grid system on their landscape pictures.

You have just been informed you are moving, but you have the choice of three locations. Where do you go? This is the question class members answer in a map skills project. Learners examine three locations using maps, gather information...

Students identify the four intermediate directions. In this map skills lesson, students use post-it notes to label the four intermediate directions on a map. Students locate various states using intermediate directions.