Curated OER
Landscape Picture Map: Making a Map Grid
Learners create a map grid system. In this map lesson, students discuss how mapmakers use a grid system to make giving directions easier. Learners learn how the grid system works and create a grid system on their landscape pictures.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Taxicab Treasure Hunt
Find the treasure hidden at an intersection in the city. Use the clues. Read the instructions then scroll to the bottom and click "hide the treasure".
BBC
Bbc: Landscapes: Map Skills: Grid References
Young map readers will learn the idea of referring to the grid numbers to help find locations or to describe locations on a map.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Student Created Landform Maps With Glacial Emphasis
An activity where students work together to make topographic maps of a local park. The map must include a key and the grid locations of landforms in the park.