Book 1: Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 1 journeys from introducing globes and maps to locating continents and using the compass rose. Your students will enjoy their voyages using map symbols and keys as they tour a wildlife refuge, find Razz the missing rabbit, and discover why a flock of wild geese make a puzzling flight twice each day. Every page offers opportunities for discussion. Work together as a class, with partners, or alone. Your students will have lots of fun learning and exploring.

Book 2: Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 2 journeys from reviewing the globe and compass rose to using a map scale and locating countries within continents. Your students will experience numerous and varied adventures using map symbols, map keys, and map scales as they follow the ice-cream truck, help Sam Super Spy complete a secret mission, go the distance in a bike-a-thon, and even travel across the United States to join some children on exciting adventures. Your students will have a wonderful time learning and exploring!

Book 3: Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 3 journeys from reviewing the compass rose to using a map scale and lines of latitude and longitude. Your students will experience a wide range of adventures using map symbols and keys as they visit a mall, help a mail carrier follow her route, track down a mission person, and travel the United States. Every page offers opportunities for discussion. Work together as a class or with partners, or alone. Your students will have lots of fun learning and exploring.

Book 4: Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 4 journeys from reviewing the compass rose to using a map scale and lines of latitude and longitude. Your students will experience a wide range of adventures using map symbols and keys. Every page offers opportunities for discussion. Work together as a class or with partners, or alone. Your students will have lots of fun learning and exploring.

Book 5: Go beyond memorizing names and borders. Explore new routes to learning about maps. Map Skills - Grade 5 journeys from reviewing the compass rose to using a map scale and lines of latitude and longitude. Your students will experience a wide range of adventures using map symbols and keys. Every page offers opportunities for discussion. Work together as a class or with partners, or alone. Your students will have lots of fun learning and exploring.

Book 6: Too often map skills focus on memorizing country borders, names, and capitals. With our rapidly changing world, what is learned one year may become obsolete the next. Map Skills, Grade 6 has a more practical approach. It focuses on the natural geography of the world, why maps are made like they are, and how to use them to find your way around. Students will learn to understand map symbols such as the legend, scale, directional compass, and grids. The will learn to differentiate between physical, political, thematic, and direction maps and how each type is useful for different information. Political boundaries and country names may change, but the skills learned in this book will last a lifetime.