Books in Fun with Map Skills series

This valuable resource will teach readers everything they need to know to read a map. Theyll get lost in this book as they read fun facts about real-life pirate shipwrecks and buried treasure. They will also learn about scale, longitude and latitude, relevant vocabulary, and how to read a legend. Call-outs throughout the text will challenge them to think fast and test their newly acquired skills.

Long before humans were around, dinosaurs roamed the earth, and they have been a topic of endless fascination since we first discovered their remains. Readers will learn map skills with ease as the compelling dinosaur and fossil images will divert and delight. Budding archaeologists and readers will roll up their sleeves and dig into this absorbing topic.

From coast to coast, tragedy can strike at any moment. Readers will learn about the locations of disasters from earthquakes to tsunamis and everything in between, all the while discovering how to understand a maps symbols, its contour or latitude and longitude lines, and more. Real-life photographs and attention-grabbing subject matter is sure to transform this sometimes dry topic into a compelling study.

Sports fans will let out a cheer when they pick up this accessible title. Injecting excitement into this vital topic, readers will be instantly absorbed into the sports world as they learn important skills such as reading a key or determining scale. With real-life context, and a crowd-pleasing theme, this title makes learning how to read maps of all kinds an action-packed event.

Sports fans will let out a cheer when they pick up this accessible title. Injecting excitement into this vital topic, readers will be instantly absorbed into the sports world as they learn important skills such as reading a key or determining scale. With real-life context, and a crowd-pleasing theme, this title makes learning how to read maps of all kinds an action-packed event.

Readers will take aim as they learn how to track their prey in this compelling title. Acquiring map skills has never been more fun as readers dive into this action-packed text. With a clear real-life application, map skills are more than simply another academic subject. The images and high-interest topic are sure to draw in reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike.

This valuable resource will teach readers everything they need to know to read a map. Theyll get lost in this book as they read fun facts about real-life pirate shipwrecks and buried treasure. They will also learn about scale, longitude and latitude, relevant vocabulary, and how to read a legend. Call-outs throughout the text will challenge them to think fast and test their newly acquired skills.

Dozens of Reproducible Activities That Build Skills in Working With Fractions, Decimals, Percents, Integers, Prime Numbers, and More!Math skills made fun! Kids will love solving math problems to create dazzling line designs and constructions like Integer Explosion, Rising Star Fractions, and Tree-Topper Percents. These reproducible activities give kids practice in fractions, decimals, percents, integers, prime and composite numbers, solving equations, and more. Leveled for different abilities.

In this rapidly changing global world, people are challenged everyday to be culturally literate. More than ever, map-reading skills are a necessity for the informed student. This book contains the tools needed to teach your fifth-graders to read and use a variety of maps and map features. Each topic presented includes a teacher page filled with background information, teaching suggestions, and ideas for related activities. Also included for each topic are several students’ pages that provide challenging practice with map skills of all kinds - map legends, scale, latitude and longitude lines, thematic maps, and so on. A glossary and answer key complete this valuable resource book.