Map Skills Unit | Creative Mapping Activity | Paper

Review map 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 fantastic bulletin board for your classroom at the same time.

This product is part of our Grade 4 Alberta Social Studies Bundle.

This product is part of our Grade 5 Alberta Social Studies Bundle.

This easy-to-use product includes:

• 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. These are great for review or introductions.
• complete lesson plans to teach a variety of map reading skills with modifications so you can easily differentiate for your students.
• student mapping pages.
• answer keys.
• a review activity of all the map skills.
• quizzes with answer keys.
• photographs of student examples.
• Canadian/British and American spellings.
• customary and metric measurements.
• 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.

This task aligns with:

• Canadian Social Studies lessons about geography.
  
• general geography lessons.

Ninja Note: This file is a PDF and requires printing for students to use the student pages. 

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