Map Skills Learning Centers | Reading a Map

Your students will love practicing their map skills with these fun learning centers! Easy to implement and so much fun, your students will be begging for more map practice! Center games practice various map skills for 2nd-4th grades.

What skills do the centers practice? Centers practice locating/ identifying continents and oceans, creating a map using symbols, directions, and a map key, and locating world locations, and more.

How can I use these learning centers? All materials are included to set up as 6 different learning centers. You can set up all centers on one day, having groups of students rotating to each center. You can also have the entire class practice one center with a partner or small group.

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PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• How to Use Product: Includes directions for assembling center folders and materials as well as ways to use activities not in centers.
• "Roll a Map": Partner game to practice identifying and labeling continents and oceans on a world map. Teacher directions page, student directions page, center cover, and world map included.
• "Where in the World is Ricardo Estaban?" Detective Dan is hot on the trail of suspected jewel thief Ricardo Esteban. Follow the clues to help Detective Dan track Ricardo around the world to his ultimate capture! Teacher directions page, student directions page, center cover, world map, clue cards, recording page, and answer key included.
• Cardinal and Intermediate Directions Go Fish Game: Practice cardinal and intermediate directions by playing Go Fish! Teacher directions page, student directions page, center cover, and game cards included.
• "Time for a Treasure Hunt": Make a map leading classmates to a special treasure. Use map symbols, a map key, and cardinal/ intermediate directions to lead your classmates to the treasure. Teacher directions page, student directions page, and center directions included.
• Continental U.S. states puzzles: Put the U.S. back together again with a fun puzzle. Teacher directions page, student directions page, center cover page, color labeled U.S. map puzzle, black/ white labeled U.S. map puzzle, and unlabeled U.S. map puzzle.
• Continents and Oceans Puzzle: Put the world back together with a fun puzzle. Teachers directions page, student directions page, center cover page, and colored world map puzzle.
• "Around the World" map skills game: Practice maps skills (equator, Prime Meridian, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, continents, oceans, and more) with this fun game for 2-4 students. Teacher directions page, student directions page, center cover page, game board, game question cards, and answer key included.

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OTHER PRODUCTS YOU MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN:

Continents and Oceans Activities

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Map Skills Vocabulary Posters and Activities

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