Map activities for kindergarten

Why are map skills important for kids? How can I teach navigational skills to preschoolers? Inside this post you'll learn about maps and why knowing how to get around is important for kids! We're also

Kindergarten map skills can be a tricky concept to teach! Find fun and engaging ways to present this topics to your little learners!

Teaching map skills to young learners introduces them to key vocabulary terms and helps them identify directionality, different places, and where they live.

Are you studying geography this year? Check out this free, printable Continent Matching Activity. It's especially great for younger children, but older ones may find it helpful as well. It will help your child to visually recognize the shape of the different continents!

Preschoolers or pre-k students can create a blueprint of their room using the included cutouts of furniture. This preschool activity is great for working on map skills during an All About me theme! #preschoolactivities

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

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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!

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