Maps Worksheet

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How to teach Maps

Using this Maps Worksheet, students find and label different kinds of maps in order to build their map skills.

There are many different types of maps that people use every day. Many maps show natural features, or landforms. To distinguish the landforms on the map, cartographers, or mapmakers, use certain methods to make it easier for us to tell where and what these landforms are.

Students look at the pictures below. For what symbols do you think these pictures might be used? Write a label for each picture that might be used on a map.

Other resources to use with this Maps Worksheet

If you are using this worksheet, your students are probably learning about maps.

Use this Finding Spot Map Coordinate Worksheet as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this worksheet by reviewing how maps help us. Then, students complete worksheet independently or with a partner. Finally, students practice find examples of map symbols in a map.

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