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Map Maker

June 1st, 2008 · 16 Comments

IWB Maps

Use this teaching resource to create maps quickly and easily for your own purpose. The maps can be printed to hand out to students. The maps can be saved to your computer and re-loaded to use to demonstrate points on the interactive whiteboard. An on screen ruler can be toggled on or off.

The traditional map has self orienting roads for speed and ease of use. It has 4 figure grid references.

There are two versions of the treasure map. The first uses 4 figure grid references. The second uses letters and numbers for grid references.

A set of printable resources to accompany this interactive whiteboard resource can also be downloaded and contain a printable grid and cut out and stick map symbols to match the resources.

The resources are very recently completed so if any bugs or errors are found please let me know. Similarly if you have any suggestions to make them more useful please comment.

Traditional map maker.

Treasure Map Maker. (4 figure grid reference)

Treasure Map Maker. (Letter-Number grid reference)

Printable Resources:

Instructions.

Traditional map pack.

Treasure map pack.

Note that this resource uses cookies to save the maps to your computer. No data is accessed or stored beyond this.

Tags: General Maths · Maps · Shape Space and Measure

16 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Rachel Lacey // Jun 1, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Super map resource – perfect for local area work. Any chance of adding a school picture, a church, a car park and a play park? Some people are just never satisfied!
    Thanks again

  • 2 Lottie25 // Jun 1, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Great maps thats so much, will be great for our pirate work when we go back.

  • 3 admin // Jun 1, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    The traditional map now has the extra symbols. Satisfied now :-) ?

  • 4 Helen // Jun 2, 2008 at 6:54 am

    Are the extra symbols on the pdf map pack yet?

  • 5 admin // Jun 2, 2008 at 9:56 am

    Good point, I forgot about that. I’ll have them done by the end of today. Thanks for mentioning.

    EDIT: The new symbols are now included.

  • 6 Helen // Jun 2, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    thanks.

  • 7 Julie // Sep 1, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    A brilliant resource!

  • 8 Digital Maps « Primary Nuggets // Mar 6, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    [...] create our own maps we used the map making activity on the Teacherled website  www.teacherled.com/2008/06/01/map-maker/ before looking at World Maps through Google Earth. [...]

  • 9 Map Maker: generatore gratuito di mappe stampabili | ma]estro[antonio // Nov 1, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    [...] Map Maker è una interessante utility che ho scoperto navigando su TeacherLED, il portale curato da Spencer Riley, insegnante di Birmingham, che presenta una serie di strumenti interattivi gratuiti pensati per un impiego online mediante lavagna multimediale (LIM). Il programma in questione permette con pochi clic del mouse di costruire delle semplici mappe da utilizzare in geografia per creare divertenti percorsi-gioco con cui esercitare i bambini nell’utilizzo corretto delle coordinate, dei punti di riferimento e dei punti cardinali al fine di localizzare un punto. Qui sotto trovate le immagini in anteprima dei tre tipi di mappe disponibili: una mappa tradizionale e due versioni della mappa del tesoro (un clic sopra le immagini per aprire le pagine delle applicazioni, poi premere il pulsante “Go”). [...]

  • 10 Pauline // Nov 9, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    Thank you – pure genius. Looking forward to trying it out.

  • 11 Frosty // Apr 25, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    You are a legend, I lovvvvvvvvvvvve this resource. In my experience when teaching Area and Grid References I find students find it so much easier if the northings and eastings have different values, so I’d love to see it where I could input my own values so the map template isn’t always the same or could you change either the eastings or the northings or is that being oh so picky.

    I don’t understand how to get the load button to work either, can you help?

  • 12 Alanna // Dec 6, 2010 at 2:06 am

    Your maps are FANTASTIC!!

    Quick question … I can print them out but when I hit save on my computer nothing happens. What should I be doing to get my map to save?

    Greatly appreciate the help :-)

  • 13 Sam Wakeman // Mar 11, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    This Map can also be used for coordinates within maths (we have just been making maps to do both negative and positive coordinates) and is really engaging for students.

    You would have to explain that the numbers correspond to values on axes and that you give the coordinates of the bottom right hand corner but I could see that this resource would have been fantastic for them, had I found it before today!

    Maybe having a link to it from the Maths area as well? (Or if it’s not too much hassle – add axis labels for x and y for a “maths” version)

  • 14 Getting started with your interactive whiteboard « SPACS Technology Department // Apr 14, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    [...] Pull up a world map (www.teacherled.com/category/maps) and ask students to tap on a country or continent to learn its name. Drag maps around to show different parts of the world. Create maps with older students using Map Maker (www.teacherled.com/2008/06/01/map-maker). [...]

  • 15 grade 3 rules // Feb 11, 2012 at 8:08 am

    Thsi is brilliant, thank you! Can’t wait to use it with my students.

  • 16 Teacher 101 // Feb 25, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    Great! I have tried this myself and it is GREAT!! :)

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