Teaching maps

Student Map Skills Project for teaching basic map skills - Students design their own city, town, or park using a map key and compass rose! Hands-on, engaging teaching for social studies and map skills.

These fantastic activities are definitely the way to go.

A map is a representation of a place, usually drawn on a flat surface. It shows how things are related to each other in terms of their locations, distances, and sizes.

ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students, li

I would use this as a transition into our map lesson by letting groups create their own maps of what our classroom looked like.

Teaching pre-K made a little easier!

Try our map skills worksheets to know the cardinal and intermediate directions on the compass rose, read maps using legends, symbols, scale and grids.

Use the free website, Mapmaker, to create maps and practice measuring with a digital ruler.

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Free Map Printable! This set includes maps that are labeled as well as blank maps. Great for map practice!