Map Skills Unit and Creative Mapping Activity
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Review mapping skills while getting to know your students through these geography lessons and a cumulative art project that uses map skills. Your planning is done for the next few weeks as your students work and you can even create a beautiful bulletin board for your classroom at the same time.
This easy to use product includes:
- introductory lessons on titles, landforms, map labels, cardinal and intermediate directions, the compass rose, relative location, reading a legend, scale, equator, Prime Meridian, longitude, and latitude.
- complete lesson plans to teach a variety of map reading skills with modifications so you can easily differentiate for your students.
- student pages.
- answer keys.
- photographs of student examples.
- a review activity of all the map skills.
- quizzes with answer keys.
- a creative and geographical thinking map project to wrap up all the learning in a fun and awesome artistic way. It's perfect for back to school, but works any time of year.
- student planning pages for the map project.
- student checklists for the map project.
- rubrics for the art project
- extension activity for the map project.
- Canadian/British and American spellings.
- customary and metric measurements.
Check out some of our other back to school resources:
- Back to School Activities
- Back to School Writing Activity (try this free sample)
- Back to School Logic Puzzles and try the free one.
- Back to School Writing Prompts
- Back to School Discussion Task Cards Grades 1-3
- Back to School Discussion Task Cards Grades 4-6
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What our customers have said about this product:
***Thanks for a great resource. My 5th graders always need additional practice with these skills, and this will help me provide that for them. Thanks again. (Thank you Buckeye Beagle "Knows")
***Fun, adorable, and great for teaching mapping skills!! (Thank you!)
Thank you for your consideration! Happy geographical thinking from the Brain Ninjas!