Mega Fun Map Skills Grades K 1

Great skill-building activities, games & reproducibles for class room teachers or homeschool.

60 fun and engaging reproducibles that teach key map skills and invite kids to learn about urban, suburban, and rural communities.

An annotated listing of activities books for use with social studies curriculums, focusing on elementary and middle school grades, arranged by curriculum area, topic, and grade level. Includes contact information for publishers and distributors of appropriate books, and an index.

Children need the chance to explore and understand where they live and all the places surrounding them to make sense of their world. Through geography, children can feel a connection with people they have never met and places they have never been. Through these connections, children can be inspired to care about their place and their communities. This book includes chapters explaining the concepts of location, perspective, scale, orientation, map symbols and map keys, and the five themes of geography. In addition, chapters are included on various types of maps and the use of technology to teach map skills. There are suggestions for 100 activities to teach the concepts, assessment questions, and annotated children’s literature that relate to the concepts. The book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms.

Provides lessons and activities to help students with their map reading skills.

In this rapidly changing global world, people are challenged everyday to be culturally literate. More than ever, map-reading skills are a necessity for the informed student. This book contains the tools needed to teach your third-and fourth-graders to read and use a variety of maps and map features. Each topic presented includes a teacher page filled with background information, teaching suggestions, and ideas for related activities. Also included for each topic are several students pages that provide challenging practice with map skills of all kinds - map legends, scale, latitude and longitude lines, thematic maps, and so on. A glossary and answer key complete this valuable resource book.

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.

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