The map reading skills and orienteering lessons in these map activity books provide excellent teaching resources for classroom or homeschool teachers.
In this rapidly changing global world, people are challenged everyday to be culturally literate. More than ever, map-reading skills are a necessity for the informed student. This book contains the tools needed to teach your third-andfourth-graders to read and use a variety of maps and map features. Each topic presented includes a teacher page filled with background information, teaching suggestions, and ideas for related activities. Also included for each topic are several students pages that provide challenging practice with map skills of all kinds - map legends, scale, latitude and longitude lines, thematic maps, and so on. A glossary and answer key complete this valuable resource book.
This book, 90 pages, is recommended for 3rd-4th grade.
Frank Schaffer Publications designed the activities in this book to cover essential skills found in standardized tests. Every activity is aligned to state and national standards and designed to improve performance. Through cooperative efforts with Align to Achieve, an independent, non-profit organization, the instructional contents of this book have been correlated to meet or exceed standards for each state as well as national standards. Click here to see a complete list of items available from Frank Schaffer Publications. |
