In the Spotlight: NEW K-3 Interactive Farm Map & Game for the Early Learner
Uncle Sam's Farm is an engaging interactive instructional tool for the early learner, designed to help develop and reinforce vocabulary and visual images associated with a farm and rural environment. The map also provides a fun way to introduce concepts of location and directions, and serves as an excellent starting point for economics, the importance of work and the role of producers and consumers.
Our Uncle Sam's Farm map is the first in a series of new interactive maps planned for the K-3 classroom. New maps to be released soon will support literacy, relative location, absolute location, and map grids.
Teacher Tools: Understanding Geography Activities in PDF Format Available Now
Maps101 is now offering a wonderful collection of 46 Understanding
Geography Activities in easily printable PDF format aimed at your 3rd, 4th
and 5th graders. These activity guides include instructions, objectives and assessments
of each activity ranging from "understanding maps and globes" to "immigration
patterns" and "weather and climate activities."
Maps101 in Your Classroom
Tell us how you have used our maps, lesson plans, or any other Maps101 content in your classroom, and we'll send you a FREE United States wall map for sharing. Click
here to enter. Remember to check out our Historical
Map set which includes fascinating timelines to enhance your student's knowledge of geography. The latest edition is a 2008
Presidential Election Polling Map.
Are you visiting NCSS?
If you are attending the National Council
for the Social Studies, November 14-16, in Houston, Texas, come visit us at booth #616! Let us Demo the latest improvement to Maps101, and the new exciting, reusable adhesive wall map for your classrooms. This is a revolutionary way to end the hassle of pull down maps as we know it. Come talk to us and you will receive a free pocket reference guide map.
Deane's Challenge
Can you beat our Senior Cartographic Editor at these questions? Choose your answers, then click the links to view maps for these regions.
- The Davis Strait, along northeast Canada, runs between Baffin Island and what other large island?
- Worldwide, which kind of forest is being most rapidly depleted?
- The Great Dividing Range, Australia's largest mountain chain, doesn't divide
the country evenly. Which coast is it much closer to?
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