Map Skills For Today Grade 1

From treasure maps to state maps, this fun and colorful map skills primer covers symbols, cardinal directions, the globe-map connection, and more.

Contains activities for primary children who are learning basic map skills.

Too often map skills focus on memorizing country borders, names, and capitals. With our rapidly changing world, what is learned one year may become obsolete the next. Map Skills, Grade 6 has a more practical approach. It focuses on the natural geography of the world, why maps are made like they are, and how to use them to find your way around. Students will learn to understand map symbols such as the legend, scale, directional compass, and grids. The will learn to differentiate between physical, political, thematic, and direction maps and how each type is useful for different information. Political boundaries and country names may change, but the skills learned in this book will last a lifetime.

Practice math, reading, and critical thinking skills with activities on using a compass, making map keys and grids, and understanding political maps.

The Cat in the Hat introduces beginning readers to maps–the different kinds (city, state, world, topographic, temperature, terrain, etc.); their formats (flat, globe, atlas, puzzle); the tools we use to read them (symbols, scales, grids, compasses); and funny facts about the places they show us (“Michigan looks like a scarf and a mitten! Louisiana looks like a chair you can sit in!”).

Maps can show you where you are anywhere in the world! A beloved bestseller that helps children discover their place on the planet, now refreshed with new art from Qin Leng. Where are you? Where is your room? Where is your home? Where is your town? This playful introduction to maps shows children how easy it is to find where they live and how they fit in to the larger world. Filled with fun and adorable new illustrations by Qin Leng, this repackage of Me on the Map will show readers how easy it is to find the places they know and love with help from a map.

Our best-selling Map Skills for Today practice books use colorful maps, globes, and other geographic constructs. Each 48 page student practice book introduces a sequence of geography skills, presents various kinds of maps, challenges students to solve problems, and provides extension activities and exercises. Maps Across America-Grade 3 uses maps to explore the geography of the United States.

Learn about highway maps, hemispheres, and latitude and longitude while focusing on regions and states.