Activities will enhance students' understanding of how to read the map scale and apply it to measuring distances between locations.

A comprehensive learning module on maps that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students learn about map symbols, cardinal directions, and...

This resource has a topographic map that tells you where things are and how to get to them. Use this site to help you use a map and compass to determine your location.

Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...

After reading an article about how the spread of HIV/AIDS was first tracked, students act as epidemiologists to map its spread round the world. The lesson materials and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded.

In this learning module, students will engage in a deep study of Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Worksheets, a test, and map projects are provided to reinforce comprehension of The Wizard of Oz.

A short tutorial on mapping tools and how to read maps. Covers features of maps, symbols, the compass, scale, distance, how height is represented, and grid references. Includes multiple-choice quiz at the end.

Teachers will learn about importance of character maps. Teachers will learn how to implement character maps; measure progress with character maps; and find research to support the use of character maps. Several reproducible character...

Students track the action of the Battle of Trenton while increasing their reading and map skills of historic events by using this interactive made by George Washington's Mount Vernon.

This British web site gives a basic overview, answers questions about mindmapping, and offers suggestions on this topic. Several books are recommended. Explore the links for more information.

A fillable essay map in PDF format with boxes for an introduction, main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are...

Students will read "The Inside Search," from Dust Tracks on a Road with a partner creating a character web.

In an effort to honor every life that has been lost on our borders, Coalicion de Derechos Humanos records the number of bodies that are recovered in the Sonoran Desert. View the map to read the names of those that died since 2000. Click...

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.

Students investigate maps and data to learn where and when hurricanes form and how climate change may be affecting them.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Character Webs, Responding to Literature Forms, Reading Analysis Organizers, Story Maps, Cognitive Bookmarks, Instructional Webs, and more.

This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Elizabeth Howard's Aunt Flossie's Hats, Mem Fox's Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Bill Martin's Knots On A Counting Rope, and Lucia Gonzales' The Bossy...

Understand and use basic map concepts and skills.

Understanding map projections is an important map-reading skill. Features graphics and links to examples of many different projections and an activity on making a Mercator projection.

This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for students of all levels.

Lesson that helps students understand maps, map directions, and map symbols. Students use teacher-created maps to locate numbered keys on the playground.

This lesson plan examines the changes and developments in characters which appear in a series. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.