Reading and interpreting a variety of maps is an important geographical skill and enquiry method. Maps and Mapping skills is a series that looks at basic and intermediate geographical skills involved in map reading and map making. By translating the three dimensional into two, children are encouraged to hone their thinking skills and spacial awareness, and consider the presentation of complex information into a logical and usable map. This will provide a useful introduction to reading atlases as well as basic map skills for KS3. Will contain questions/activities throughout to encourage children to practice map reading, understand concepts from scale to population density, and to learn to use maps for particular purposes.

 

This book is part of a book series called Maps And Mapping Skills .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a book of maps. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

After travelling widely as a Naval Officer, Jack Gillett taught geography for over 25 years and has written more than 20 books for KS2 to A-level. He is also an experienced GCSE Geography Examiner.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: What is a map?
• 2: What can you see?
• 3: What's on a map?
• 4: Scale and distance
• 5: Zooming in!
• 6: How to: Make a scale plan
• 7: Signs and Symbols
• 8: Getting your bearings
• 9: Four-figure grid references
• 10: Six-figure grid references
• 11: Different kinds of maps
• 12: Use your skills: Make your own map
• 13: Use your skills: Island Adventure
• 14: Use your skills: Map Wordsearch
• 15: Glossary and Answers
• 16: Index