Contains activities for primary children who are learning basic map skills.

Maps can show you where you are anywhere in the world! A beloved bestseller that helps children discover their place on the planet, now refreshed with new art from Qin Leng. Where are you? Where is your room? Where is your home? Where is your town? This playful introduction to maps shows children how easy it is to find where they live and how they fit in to the larger world. Filled with fun and adorable new illustrations by Qin Leng, this repackage of Me on the Map will show readers how easy it is to find the places they know and love with help from a map.

Learn map skills to help you navigate and find things.

In this rapidly changing global world, people are challenged everyday to be culturally literate. More than ever, map-reading skills are a necessity for the informed student. This book contains the tools needed to teach your third-and fourth-graders to read and use a variety of maps and map features. Each topic presented includes a teacher page filled with background information, teaching suggestions, and ideas for related activities. Also included for each topic are several students pages that provide challenging practice with map skills of all kinds - map legends, scale, latitude and longitude lines, thematic maps, and so on. A glossary and answer key complete this valuable resource book.

How to Dazzle at Beginning Mapskills contains 43 photocopiable sheets for use with slower learners aged 11-14. The material is all related to the skills element of the Programme of Study for Geography, focussing in particular on the Local Area and culminating in activities based on the British Isles, Europe and the World. The activities are presented in an age-appropriate manner and provide a flexible but structured resource for teaching pupils to develop an understanding of direction and location in relation to simple maps, and the different uses of land.