Social Studies

Explore people and places.

Use maps, questions, and evidence to understand the world around you.

Make a map of a familiar place

Choose a classroom, a park, or a room. Sketch its shape and add five features that help someone find their way.

  1. Give the map a title.
  2. Choose symbols for the features.
  3. Add a key explaining each symbol.
  4. Ask someone to follow a route using your map.
  5. Revise anything they found confusing.

Think like a geographer

What did you include? What did you leave out? How would your map change if it were made for a visitor, a gardener, or someone using a wheelchair?

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