This collection features map activities designed to strengthen spatial thinking skills for students. Spatial thinking allows students to comprehend and analyze phenomena related to the places and spaces around them, and is one of the most important skills students can develop as they learn geography, and various science disciplines.

NatGeoEd.org/elementary-map-skills and grouped by grade bands: Grades preK-1, Grades 2-4, and Grades 5-6+. This collection can help with teaching an assortment of map skills through activities that

2024年9月17日 · Students use a map scale to measure distance between cities and other places on a map of your state. They create and exchange quizzes and use an interactive map to check their answers.

2024年12月3日 · Maps present information about the world in a simple, visual way. They show the shapes of countries, locations of bodies of water or mountains, and distances between places. Maps can also show the layout of a single city's streets. Mapmakers are known as cartographers. They create maps for many different purposes.

2024年9月17日 · Show students maps that include a north arrow instead of a compass rose. Ask: Why would a mapmaker choose to only show the direction north? How might a map reader determine the other directions? Tips & Modifications. Discuss how the world map is like a globe but also different from a globe.

2024年9月17日 · Modeling the use of maps in and out of school can help students to recognize the value of maps and gain confidence with them. Using maps of places that are familiar to students will strengthen their spatial thinking skills before …

2021年2月25日 · Using maps to cross the figurative borders between subjects like math, history, science, and geography provides students with tools not only to relate to the ideas or issues they explore, but also to create new visualizations to increase the awareness of others.

2024年9月17日 · Reinforce spatial skills and help with classroom organization by using the classroom map when you assign students to different locations or centers. Write students’ names on sticky notes, and post them on the map.

2024年9月17日 · Challenge students’ geographic thinking by asking whether the map of the Lincoln Park Zoo or the Chicago map show a bigger place. Help students see that Chicago is larger, and that the zoo is one, smaller place on the map.

See National Geographic Education’s collection, Map Skills the ability to understand spatial relationships such as for Elementary Students (NatGeoEd.org/elementary-map-skills). MATERIALS THAT PROVIDE SENSORY EXPERIENCES AND TACTILE, HANDS-ON, ACTIVE MAPPING ACTIVITIES: • Textured maps • Exploring Maps and Models of the Earth,