Title: Simple Ways To Teach Map Skills – Bright Ideas Press
Headings: Simple Ways To Teach Map Skills
Simple Ways To Teach Map Skills
Simple Ways To Teach Map Skills
For The Love Of Maps
Teaching Map Skills Organically
Making Maps Part Of Life
Tools For Teaching Map Skills
Author
Marci Goodwin

Content: Learn to use a map, people. ( But, I digress…)
Teaching Map Skills Organically
Reading and using maps is a life skill that is dying with the invention of GPS navigation and Google Maps. That is a shame. Maps not only help you not get lost, they help you learn spatial reasoning. Being able to realize the distance between places and where things are in the world in relationship to others, is a crucial skill in understanding our place in the world. When we started homeschooling, my daughter’s first lesson was about maps. I knew that map skills would help her in almost all of her subjects. Just knowing where places are in relationship to each other helps us understand more as we learn. For instance, knowing the distance across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to North America helps us understand why it was such a dangerous voyage for explorers and the first settlers. My daughter and I looked at all types of maps from simple maps with just streets and symbols to atlases and travel road maps to early mariner maps to topographical maps.