This is a handy little booklet you can whip up super quick for your students and will help reinforce your teaching points about what maps are. Aimed at Foundation (K) and Grade 1 students, your kiddos are going to love completing their own mini-book about maps. Also useful as a fast finisher or cut and paste individual pages into their Geography books as you explain each mapping term.
 
This easy-to-use packet includes definitions and explanations on:
	
Title page
	
What is a map?
	
What is a globe?
	
What are the different types of maps?
	
What is a birds-eye view?
	
What is street view?
	
Why do we use maps?
	
How do maps help us? (two pages of examples)
	
Who uses maps?
	
What are map symbols?
	
What is a compass?
	
What are cardinal directions?
	
Let's make a map! (individual activity)
 
Aligned to the following curriculum
Australia (ACARA) 8.3
FOUNDATION YEAR – Geography
	
The representation of the location of places and their features on simple maps and models.
	
Describing how the globe is a representation of the world and locating Australia and other places on a globe