�Maps, Maps, Maps!

Read, Listen, or Watch the Video of the Book

Developed and facilitated by Curriculum and Instruction team:

Content Specialists, Echo Reves, Judy Bowers

April 2020

What Did You Learn from the Book?

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What different places did you see as the animals and birds flew or walked?

Your answers might sound something like this:

• I saw ___________________ and ___________________.
• I noticed that the rabbit went to the _______________, the ________________ and the __________________.
• The most interesting places were________ and ________because________________.
• The pages of the book are like a map because ___________.

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• Pretend that you are a crow flying above you as you go to one of these places.
• Draw a map that shows everything the crow would see.
• Be sure to draw and label everything… buildings, houses, trees, flowers, stop signs, landforms, bodies of water, paths, streets and much more.

Add this map to your book.

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What places do you go? ... your room, to the store, to school, around your neighborhood, to your backyard?

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Use Any Materials You’d Like to Make a Map

Let’s Make a Book About Maps!

First, make a cover for your book.

Think of your own title.

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When the book is finished, illustrate the cover.

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Interesting Facts About Maps

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By _________

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Why Are Maps Important?

Write a page for your book about why maps are important.

You might use these sentence starters or write on your own.

• Maps help us ______________.
• People need maps because__________.
• In order to find different places you ______________.

Add your writing to your book!

Some Maps Have Landforms

• What landforms did you notice in the book As the Crow Flies?
• Draw and paint landforms, each one on a new piece of paper.
• Add your pages about landforms to your book.

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Hills and mountains are landforms.

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• Draw, paint and label different bodies of water on separate pieces of paper

Add these pages to your book.

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Rivers, lakes, ponds and oceans are called bodies of water. ��

Play Guess My Location

-It is ____. It has ____.

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Below the ____, it has ____. Next to _____, is _____.

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-If you _____, then _______. It is ______-er compared to a _____.

1. Take turns with a partner choosing a place located in your home, yard, school, or neighborhood and then drawing a map.
2. Next, describe the location to your partner, while they sketch a map.
3. Finally, guess the location described and compare your maps.

And now…

• Make a beautiful picture on the cover of your book.
• Read your book to your family.
• FaceTime friends and family to read your book.
• Teach them all the interesting facts and ideas you’ve learned about maps.

Congratulations!

You Are a Cartographer!!!

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Thank you, we hope you are well and safe. Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at Curriculum and Instruction.

805.437.1330

Echo Reves: elee@vcoe.org

Judy Bowers: jbowers@vcoe.org

https://www.vcoe.org/ci

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