Maps: How to Use Them
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| Maps: How to Use Them |
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Description:
| These sites cover various maps skills and vocabulary words related to using maps. Compare and contrast different maps. Includes online games and quizzes, lesson plans, print outs. There are links to eThemes resources on latitude and longitude, political, economic, physical, and topographical maps and how to use maps. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Fact Monster: Types of Maps
Find out differences among six major types of maps. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Fact Monster: Map
Learn what maps are, how they differ from photographs and charts. Follow the links below the text, to learn history of the map making. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Maps Home Page
Explore the links on this site to learn more about distance, topography, directions, and more. Includes interactive quizzes.
ISS EarthKAM: Activities: Map Skills
Here are resources and activities in PDF files for educators to teach about map skills such as map reading, latitude, longitude, and more.
World Time Zone Map
Learn time zones and practice reading the time zones map. The page includes three formats of the map. Go to the "Information Center: U.S. Time Zones" to learn about universal and standard time.
ABC Teach: Coral Reef Center: Geography: Reading a Map
This three-page PDF has activities that can help children to learn compass directions and practice the use of a world map.
Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
This website has maps of exploration, settlement, transportation, and more of the United States. The site includes lesson plans organized by grades from K-2 to K-12.
Measure for Treasure
This activity from Scholastic has students making drawn-to-scale classroom maps. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Black and White U.S. Map
This black and white counter map of the United States can be used in class for a number of exercises.
ABS Teach: Continents and World
Follow links to printouts of outline maps of the continents and world maps.
ABC Teach: Map Skills: Europe
Students can use these activates to find names of cities and rivers, distances between places, borders between countries, and more.
Fact Monster: Map Library
Here is a library of U.S. and World outline maps PDF print outs. NOTE: The site includes ads.
National Geographic Atlas Puzzles
Pick a continent and solve an online Jigsaw puzzle. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Map and Map Games
This page has several games and quizzes to test students' knowledge of maps. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Quia: Map Skills
Match maps-related words with their definitions.
Quia: Geography and Map Skills Handbook
Select right words from drop-down menus to complete sentences in each exercise of three exercises.
Quia: Geography World - Map and Globe Skills
Try flashcards and play matching, concentration, and word search games to practice new map-related terms and definitions.
Quia: Map Skills: Quiz
Take an online quiz to test your knowledge about map skills.
eThemes Resource: Maps: Latitude and Longitude
These sites focus on latitude and longitude. Other topics include time zones, the prime meridian, and the equator. Many sites are interactive.
eThemes Resource: Maps: Physical and Topographic
These sites feature physical and topographical maps to help students find natural and man-made features. Includes interactive maps, images, games, and a lesson plan.
eThemes Resource: Maps: Political and Economic
This eThemes resource is a collection of maps that represent political boundaries, major cities, transportation routes, etc. Maps of the world, continents, countries, states, and regions. Some are downloadable and can be modified using graphics editors.
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Education Standards:
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AL Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 6.2, 6.2
AR Standards:
PPE.2.4, PPE.2.5, SSPS 1.3, SSPS.2.1, TCC.1.3, PPE.1.6, PPE.2.7, PDC.1.5, SSPS. 2.1, SSPS. 2.3
DE Standards:
G.1.4, G.1.K-3a.1, G.1.K-3a.2, G.1.K-3a.3, G.1.4-5a.1, G.1.4-5a.2, G.1.4-5a.3, G.1.6-8a.1, G.1.6-8a.2, G.1.6-8a.3, G.1.6-8a.4
IL Standards:
17.A.1b, 17.A.2b, 16.A.3b, 17.A.3b
ME Standards:
3.A.1, 3.A.1, 3.A.2, 3.A.3
MO Standards:
1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 1, 6, 8, 2, 5, 7, 5.A.1, 5.A.1, 7.B.1, 5.A.2, 7.B.1, 7.C.1, 5.A.2, 7.B.1, 7.C.1
NV Standards:
GS.3.2, GS.3.3, G.1.3.1, G.1.3.2, G.1.3.3, G.1.3.4, G.1.3.5, G.1.3.6, G.4.3.2, G.6.3.2, G4.1.4.1, G4.1.4.2, G4.1.4.3, G4.1.4.4, G4.1.4.5, G4.1.4.6, G4.5.4.4, G5.GS.5.3, G5.GS.5.5, G5.1.5.1, G5.1.5.2, G5.1.5.3, G5.1.5.4, G5.1.5.5, G6.1.6.2, G6.1.6.3
OH Standards:
3.A.1, 3.A.3, 3.A.4, 3.A.5, 7.A.1.a, 3.A.1, 3.D.10, 3.B.5, 3.A.2, 3.B.4
OK Standards:
1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 7.1, 7.3, 1.2, 2.2, 2.3
UT Standards:
6.1.a, 6.1.b, 6.1.c, 6.1.d, 6.1.e, 6.1.f, 7.4.b, 7.1.d, 7.2.c
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