Activities using visual & spatial skills

Superlative Island: map drawing and speaking
activity

Creating an imaginary city (PDF)

Hand drawn map

Some ideas for using maps in the classroom (PDF)

Spatial reasoning skills:  worksheets for teachers

Blank brainstorm worksheet: cluster diagram (PDF)

Blank concept map (PDF)

Graphic Organizers: Examples Across the Curriculum

Holt Rinehart and Winston samples: Graphic Organizers

Graphical Organizers concept mapping samples

Useful maps for teachers

Street/town/village maps

Fort Worth Cultural District Walking Maps
click on the links down the page for
wonderful picture/landmark maps (PDF)

Simple community map (PDF)

Mannes neighborhood street map (PDF)

Artists village map/Santa Ana (PDF)

Cuckfield Village Map (PDF)

Romsey town map (PDF)

Niseko skiing resort village map (PDF)

Parkview map (PDF)

Paradise Island map (PDF)

Marco Island Marriot Resort map (PDF)


Other visual materials

Describing a office worksheet (PDF)

Comfort Suites Hotel layout (PDF)

4 different styles of meeting room (PDF)

Describe an apartment (using room plan) speaking
exercise (see page 15)

Label the house plan (PDF)

Label the house picture (PDF)


World Maps
Print this blank map and fill in the Eurasian country names (PDF)




Giving directions map activities

Elementary directions map for ESL students (PDF)

Excuse me, where is the….?Draw a map of a town in the space below. Write the following places on
the map (PDF)

Elementary mapping skills and directions
activities incl. maps (5 page PDF)

How many museums are there in Edinburgh?
Information gap activity: find places on a map by asking questions

Directions around your neighborhood: speaking
activity

Interpreting a map of a kindergarten (PDF)