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.

2024年1月22日 · Using maps of places that are familiar to students will strengthen their spatial thinking skills before learning about states, countries, and continents. Use the prompts below to introduce the maps to students.

2024年12月3日 · A map is a symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place, usually drawn on a flat surface. Maps present information about the world in a simple, visual way. They teach about the world by showing sizes and shapes of countries, locations of features, and distances between places.

MapMaker is a digital mapping tool, created by the National Geographic Society and Esri, designed for teachers, students, and National Geographic Explorers.

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This collection can help with teaching an assortment of map skills through activities that . address the spatial thinking abilities of young children. The collection is not intended to be a complete map skills program, and the activities can all be adapted for higher or lower grades.

2024年3月11日 · Students in early elementary can begin to learn spatial concepts such as identity and location and relative distance and direction when given opportunities to practice with maps of familiar places like a classroom. Use the text and prompts below to explore the provided classroom map with students.

2025年1月7日 · A landform is a feature on Earth 's surface that is part of the terrain. Mountains, hills, plateaus and plains are the four major types of landforms. Minor landforms include buttes, canyons, valleys and basins. Tectonic plate movement under Earth can create landforms by pushing up mountains and hills. Erosion by water and wind can wear down land and create …

2024年9月17日 · Project the three maps (Mercator, Mollweide, and Robinson) showing different map projections that have been developed by cartographers. Read the captions for each. Ask: What do you observe about the lines of longitude in each of these map projections?

puzzle maps • Provide opportunities to practice with maps of familiar places (e.g. classrooms, homes, schools, neighborhoods) and to make maps, both real and imaginary • Tap into students’ interest in learning about extremes such as the largest continent and the smallest country • Provide simple maps large in size (tabletop