Map skills 3rd grade

Printable worksheets for teaching basic map skills.

Make learning to read a map fun and easy with these engaging stations! Students create maps, read maps, write the room, and more! This Social Studies unit is perfect for first grade, second grade, or third grade.

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Help your kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students develop strong map skills. This blog post features a variety of teaching tips and ideas for your map skills social studies unit. Kids will learn how to read and create maps. They will learn the parts of a map and how to give directions. Find all of these ideas and more to make your map skills lesson plans the best they can be. Teaching map skills in the elementary classroom just got easier with the ideas from this article. Read it now!

Let students have fun while learning about map skills with this interactive unit! Topics include cardinal directions, grids, scale, types of maps, and latitude and longitude.

Learning many of the different parts of a map is so much fun with these parts of a map flip book and map lines mini book.

My students LOVE making these fun 3D landform maps each year. Now let me just tell you- I am always wiped out by the end of the day when we make these- but they really are a blast and so meaningful to make. I first put the kids into groups of 3 or 4. Then, they used a landform map in their Social Studies book to sketch where the mountains and deserts are located. This just helps them get a start when they begin painting the plains on the map. After they have an idea of where the mountains…

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A map is a representation of a place, usually drawn on a flat surface. It shows how things are related to each other in terms of their locations, distances, and sizes.

Map skills and map directions never really go away; the skills just keep building year after year. Students need a solid foundation to build on, or they remain confused.