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, too.
This easy-to-use resource 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 various map reading skills. These are also the perfect lessons to review map skills.
a review activity of all the map skills.
fictional maps (so this works for any location).
student pages and templates.
answer keys, suggested answers and photographs of student examples.
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. Students create a map about themselves.
student planning pages and checklists for the map project.
rubrics for the map project
customary and metric measurements.
digital versions of all the student reading and writing pages that use Google Slides. You must download the PDF files and use the access links in the files to get your digital copies.
This resource supports:
introductory mapping skills.
Canadian Social Studies lessons about geography.
general geography lessons.
If you teach in Alberta, be aware this resource was written for the old Social Studies Program of Studies. It has not been reviewed or adjusted for the new Alberta social studies curriculum which is being piloted in the 2024-25 school year. To learn about how we plan to address the changes, visit our site https://brainninjas.ca/social-studies-in-alberta/
Ninja Note:This file is a PDF and requires printing for students to use the student pages.
