1st grade map activities

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.

These map activity printables are super easy to print and color. They make the perfect scouts, summer camp or nature activity for kids!

Here's a great geography worksheet that doubles as a coloring page! Your child will get to practice reading a simple map of a park.

Teach Kids Map Skills with fun activities: Treasure Hunting, Map Puzzles, Community Map building, challenges...

Geography activities for first grade including maps, globes, cardinal directions, types of landforms, bodies of water and more!

These fantastic activities are definitely the way to go.

Before you wrap up your social studies plans, check out our favorite activities for your maps and globes lessons! In this post, we're sharing our favorite picture books about maps and globes, like "Me on the Map" and "What a Map Can Do." Have fun mapping the playground, creating 3D maps, making a human compass, and using a map for a fun classroom scavenger hunt! When you're ready for printables, we've got engaging, low-prep worksheets that are standards-based and ready to go. Check it out!

ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,

Understanding how kids’ street, town, state, continent and planet fit together is downright confusing. Thankfully, this simple me on the map craftivity is perfect to help make things make sense! Kids will love exploring where they live at the different levels! Great for a whole group class project during a map or geography unit! #maps #meonthemap

The Geography Unit Combined.