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In teaching map skills you are going to need several types of maps. You will need maps for the classroom, maps for the students, and atlases that will guide the children in their studies.

• Wall Maps:

Otherwise known as maps for the classroom. These are the huge ones. And teaching map skills is easy to do when you have such maps to refer to in your lessons. Use a pointer to identify the area you are focusing on and ask children questions about how to read the key.

• Outline Maps:

  It is best to teach map skills using outline maps. In fact, geography is difficult to learn without outline maps!

  Outline maps are some of the most versatile and cost-effective tools you can have in your classroom when teaching map skills. Outline maps definitely add an interest to the school day. Students get to fill in their own personal outline maps of the world. (or of any particular area you are focusing on in teaching map skills) The students individuality is reflected in their maps—outline maps are a chance for your students to do a unit exercise while being creative.

  
  Outline maps are a foundational part of teaching geography and history. There are outline maps to use over and over again year after year, regardless of the topic or time period being studied. The students can draw explorers routes, tracking hurricanes and depict the mountain ranges.

• World Atlases:

  To have a world atlas in the classroom or school library for your students to refer to is a great tool to teaching map skills. The world atlas is full of information and detailed maps from everywhere around the world on magnified enough that the students can see the slightest details of the area of interest. In teaching map skills, when you have access to a world atlas, students can even choose the country or city they want to study on their own as a special project.
  
  

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