Map Legend vs. Story Legend

Help younger learners develop their map skills with this simple worksheet, which includes 12 questions utilizing a map legend that involves highway markers, population indicators, and other landmark signs.

Students investigate the United States map. For this map skills geography lesson, students explore city symbols on the map legend and identify them. Students use post-it notes to mark various symbols.

Second and third graders practice with basic map skills. They create their own map including a legend and a compass rose. This fabulous plan has many excellent websites linked which allow learners to explore maps of all kinds; including...

Students describe cities they are familiar with. In this United States Map instructional activity, students understand how cities are listed on a map. Students become aware of a map legend and the information in it.

Students design a map key in order to show where the different Cinderella stories have taken place. In this map key lesson plan, students place symbols on a map to show the diversity of the stories.

Students recognize that Native Americans used things in nature to explain unanswered questions. In this legends lesson, students read The Legend of Mackinaw Island.Students create illustration of an island with symbols. Students invent a...

Students study state maps. In this map skills lesson, students identify the states' location and how to use a legend. Students complete photocopies of the state map.

Students study the components of a map, particularly the legend, the key, the symbols and the area. They develop their own map of a garden that they can plant in a future science lesson.

Fill-out a story map to help your scholars with pre-writing. They will use a story map template to pre-write. They also organize their ideas into steps which become the foundation for their first draft. Concrete objects are brought in to...

Second graders explore the concept of making a map.  For this map making lesson, 2nd graders discover how to create a map.  Students must include correct symbols, a compass rose, and a map key.