Map Games

http://www.maps.com/games/mapquiz.aspx



At this website is a game where it asks you questions about the continents and you have to scroll over them and click the right one and it tells you if you're correct or not. It's a good game for kids to learn about each continent and what makes them different from one another.




This is another game that I found online. It's basically a puzzle and you put the different countries in their correct locations. All the games I came across online were very informative to kids to learn where different countries are located or where states are located.

One thing that these sites didn't show were pictures. When it comes to our atlas I feel like we should show lots of pictures to go along with each map. Kids are better visual learners, so having pictures will probably help the information to sink in.

Recreation Mapping

When it comes to recreation there are lots of activities you can put onto a map. The different activities that could go on a map could be camping, snowboarding, skiiing, cross country skiing, good hiking areas, fishing, swimming, boating, etc.. Below is a link to a map of Massachusetts shoing different recreation activities to do.

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/recreation/publications/recreation_map.pdf

What they do on the second page is list all of the state parks or forests in Massachusetts. Next to each of the forests or state parks there are a bunch of columns. Each column is a different recreation activity. If the site has a certain recreation activity it puts an X under that category.

This is map of the hiking trails at the Blue Hills Reservation in Eastern MA near Boston. The top of this mountain has a really nice view. You can see the entire Boston Skyline from the top. Blue hills only has a few trails but this map is very useful when you're planning a hike.