Map Skills Trading Card Activities and Word Wall Posters

Map Skills Vocabulary Trading Cards + Posters! These are a FUN, EFFECTIVE way to study map skills whether whole group, in centers or individually. I’ve included a blank set of the Map Skills Trading Cards for students to draw their own map skills pictures and come up with their own definitions and examples of the map skills vocabulary.

Product Languages:
English + Spanish (A Spanish Map Skills version is now included for FREE)


This Map Skills Vocabulary Set Includes:
• 24 Map Skills Trading Cards (click PREVIEW to see both sides)
• A 2nd set of map skills cards with only the words on them for students to fill in the picture, definition and example (Great activity for centers)
• 8 blank cards to add more map skills vocabulary to
• A fun template for a box to store the map skills cards in
• A list of 6 activities to accompany these Map Skills Trading Cards
• An enlarged set of map skills posters that you can post on a map skills word wall or bulletin board
• Trading Card Manual: 15 pages of tips and ideas on how to use these trading cards in your class.
• Spanish Map Skills set now included for FREE to use with Spanish speaking or bilingual students

The 24 map skills terms included are:
• continent
• legend
• Cardinal directions
• Intermediate directions
• scale
• longitude
• latitude
• Equator
• Tropic of cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Prime meridian
• degree
• intersect
• geography
• region
• landform
• political map
• physical map
• relief map
• elevation map
• road map
• historical map
• climate map
• economic map

Here are some related map skills products:
Geography Vocabulary Bundle - Best Deal: Save $5.00!
Map Skills Vocab CardsMap Skills Word Wall
Map Skills for Interactive Notebooks
Map Skills Game

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Thanks for looking at these Map Skills Trading Cards and be sure to check out the other trading cards and posters in my store!
~Mr. Elementary