Teaching maps 2nd grade

Help your kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students develop strong map skills. This blog post features a variety of teaching tips and ideas for your map skills social studies unit. Kids will learn how to read and create maps. They will learn the parts of a map and how to give directions. Find all of these ideas and more to make your map skills lesson plans the best they can be. Teaching map skills in the elementary classroom just got easier with the ideas from this article. Read it now!

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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.

These fantastic activities are definitely the way to go.

Teaching map skills in a primary classroom can be great fun! Mapping a perfect first grade social studies activity! Students need the opportunity to explore maps and in doing so they will start to develop spatial reasoning skills. Students enjoy learning about all map elements! Head over to my blog to read some tips for teaching map skills in a primary classroom. {1st grade, kindergarten, second grade, map key, compass rose}

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Then, we used a little total physical response to give my firsties a better visual on how the size of the places we live are related. They *loved* this

Here's a fun but challenging worksheet for older kids, to help them practise map reading skills. There's a lovely treasure map on the worksheet, and they need to use the map grid references to answer the questions.