With this hands-on program, students create maps of their own neighborhoods, other communities, or imaginary places. As students create and navigate community maps, they learn challenging concepts such as grid coordinates, location, scale, and compass navigation. Students can customize maps with pictures, movies, and Web links; print maps in multiple sizes; or present them in a slideshow or on the Internet.
Improve learning across your curriculum! In this bundle you also receive The Ready-Made Activities CD that includes 70 additional cross-curricular, standards-aligned map activities. With these structured practice activities, students: Develop understanding of scale, cardinal direction, and grid coordinate systems; Practice reading and understanding map symbols; Follow written and oral directions.
Meets State and National Standards
Your students will:
Locate places using the four cardinal directions
Use scale to determine the distance between places on maps
Identify and use the compass rose, grid, and symbols to locate places on maps
Use written language to communicate directions
Calculate, compare, and convert length, perimeter, and area
Product Features:
Easily create and customize community maps
25 standards-aligned activities in social studies, math, and language arts
Solve map mysteries using compass for navigation
80 fun map symbols plus paint tools
Pre- and post-tests to assess students' understanding
On-screen notebook with audio recorder for students to describe their maps orally or in writing
Add photos, sounds, and movies to any map symbol to personalize your maps
Link directly to the Internet from any symbol, and publish interactive maps on the Web
Create 3-D models of neighborhoods with paper cutouts of buildings
Bilingual - switch easily between English and Spanish
No Academic Proof Required
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