It’s Time to Build Map Skills for Kids!

Resources for teaching map skills are abundant, but teachers often find it difficult to find engaging and exciting materials for elementary grades. Many of the fun projects, map games, and coordinate grid worksheets are reserved for the upper-grade levels, but we’ve put together a resource to change that!

This free map skills worksheet will surely engage your young cartographers while building their knowledge of map skills and cardinal directions. Students will locate different objects on the map using cardinal directions with this resource.

This resource download includes

• Reading a Map Worksheet
• Answer Key for Easy Grading!

Through this activity, students will show the ability to use a map, legend, and cardinal directions to locate objects on a map.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your Geography lessons. 

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Provide read-aloud accommodations as needed, or pair students and have them complete the activity together.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Challenge your fast finishers to expand their mapping skills by drawing a map of their home, school, or neighborhood and using cardinal directions to identify locations.

Plan lessons for all ability levels with our 10 Best Scaffolding Strategies! 

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource.