As you and your students use the ideas found on this site, you will develop the following basic skills and concepts.

• Understand that a map is a representation of an area.
• Become familiar with school and immediate surroundings.
• Understand the meaning of near and far in the location of objects.
• See that the pictorial symbols on a map stand for natural features on Earth and for things made by people.
• Apply cardinal directions to simple maps.
• Locate places and follow simple routes on small-area maps.