K-5 By Susan Julio. Learning basic map skills is an adventure with this unique activity book in which students, working independently or in cooperative groups, solve mysteries along with Detectives Hyde and Seek. Along the way, they'll learn U.S. geography facts, including cities, capitals, small towns, and physical features. The reproducible handouts supply all the clues, but students will need access to an atlas. Each two-page thematic spread illuminates an historical period by requiring students to create or interpret visual representations of information.
Many exercises require writing short-answer or essay responses.
Teacher's editions include answers. 48 pages each. This versatile teaching resource lets users customize and print a wide variety of maps, including current maps of continents and countries, more than 450 historical maps of the U.S. and the world, and thematic maps that show average temperature, land use, population, density, precipitation, and vegetation. All maps can be printed out or exported either in slide show format or as graphic files to be used on Web pages. K-5 Explains the basics of reading maps and globes using a wide variety of examples, including political, physical, topographical, weather, population, and road maps.