Our States, My State

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

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.

Keep your class headed in the right direction with this printable compass rose. Large and easy to read with a smiling picture of Arthur in the middle, this resource would make a fun addition to the desk of any primary grade student.

Looking for a map of the Unites States of America? Look no further than this printable map designed to accompany your geography instruction and to give map skills a boost.   

Here is a well-designed, very thorough lesson plan on mapping for very young children. Within the six-page plan, you will find everything you need to implement the lesson plan. They will identify various landforms found in Colorado on a...

Here is a very nice lesson on the shape of the United States, and the shapes of the individual states for your young geographers. They utilize worksheets embedded in the plan to color in a variety of states and to become familiar with...

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.

First graders make two maps. In this developing and reading maps lesson, 1st graders read Mapping Penny's World, discuss the parts of a map, create a map of their classroom, and create a list of directions of how to get to various...

Young scholars 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.

Students use north, south, east, and west to identify relative locations and provide directions.