🌎 Me on the Map Activities

Map Skills Project for Grades 1–4 (Easily Adaptable to Grade 5)

Teach maps and globes in a way that truly helps students understand where they fit into the world!

With 8,900+ positive reviews, this is the original and highest-rated Me on the Map project bundle. This best-selling resource combines crafts, flip books, printables, and a nesting circle craftivity to make geography meaningful and memorable.

📚 Inspired by a Beloved Book

This project is based on Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney.

While reading the book enhances the experience, it is not required to complete the project.

Students create a layered step book that represents their place in the world — from themselves, to their home, city, state, country, and continent.

✂️ What’s Included

✔ Flip Book Templates

✔ Nesting Circle Craftivity

✔ Printable Worksheets

✔ Art Extension Project

✔ Map & Globe Skill Practice

✔ Bulletin Board-Ready Projects

Students can even create an art piece of themselves on Earth to match the book’s cover — perfect for hallway displays!

🧠 Skills Covered

✔ Map skills

✔ Understanding maps & globes

✔ Geography concepts

✔ Spatial awareness

✔ Social studies vocabulary

✔ Reading & writing integration

🎯 Differentiation Made Easy

This project works beautifully from 1st through 5th grade.

You can:

✔ Guide younger students to illustrate each page

✔ Have intermediate students write simple explanations

✔ Challenge advanced learners to research and write detailed descriptions

Perfect for:

• Whole-class lessons

• Independent projects

• At-home learning

• Cross-curricular integration

🌟 Why Teachers Love It

✔ BEST-SELLING resource

✔ 8,900+ glowing reviews

✔ Easy to implement

✔ Highly engaging

✔ Creates beautiful displays

✔ Integrates social studies and language arts

✔ Works across multiple grade levels

Teachers across the country — well… all over the map — use this project year after year!

Help your students understand their place in the world in a creative, meaningful, and hands-on way.