k-5.1 Links To Information For Teachers

Vocabulary

• city
• school
• highway
• street
• map
• map symbol
• state
• neighborhood

Streamline SC

• Understanding Maps: Key to Everywhere
• Understand and Making Maps: An Introduction

Suggestions

• Kindergarten Dictionary for Vocabulary
• Here is a map that you can use for an example.
• map
• map
• On a large piece of poster paper draw a map of the town or community in which the child lives. Draw the major streets and label them by name. Place on the map the child's house, shopping that the child has visited more than once, fire department, town hall, schools, etc. You might also put homes of relatives if possible. Give the child a car and have them try to go from place to place. Making sure that they stay on the given streets and roads. Add more places as the child feels comfortable. Make sure that you provide a map key in the corner at the bottom of the map. Using only your certain symbols in the map for example: use squares for houses, black lines for roads, red triangle for fire department, a cross for churches, an orange circle for stores and other map keys that you will make up. Make sure that you only use the symbols on the key on the map. If you add other things to the map add it to the scale or key.
• Now, to expand the activity have the child tell you without looking at the map you have drawn, how to get from one point to another. Example: I am going to the grocery store from my house… I go out of the driveway and turn right. Then I go across the bypass and continue for three blocks until I get to Sycamore Street. Then I turn left. The grocery store is on the right.