Suggestions for a child who loves maps?

[La Condessa]

I have a friend with a little girl who loves maps and would like to learn more about them. She enjoys drawing maps of places she has been and choosing out adult atlases out at the library for the maps of places like China.

 

It's not so much geography including world cultures, etc. as the maps themselves and how they are made that fascinate her.

 

What curriculum or other resources would you suggest?

[mommysanders]

We love the book "MAPS" by Aleksandra Mizielinska. Here's a link to it on Amazon, but since I'm on my cell phone I'm not sure how the link will turn out.

Maps https://www.amazon.com/dp/0763668966/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_haWUwbBDCDJ9K

 

It has fun pictures of each country that display the culture of that country. It may not be what you're looking for if you're just looking for how maps are made. But still worth a look.

 

 

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Edited February 10, 2016 by mommysanders

[Arcadia]

These?

http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/

http://cartogis.org/

[Laura Corin]

The National Library of Scotland has some wonderful maps online:

 

http://maps.nls.uk/scotland/

[Loesje22000]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887769330?keywords=Road%20to%20there&qid=1455097566&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

 

Beginning Geography - Map Skills (Evan Moor) if she is really young.

 

Otherwise the So you really want to learn Geography serie of Galore Park, used to have a significant part on map reading skills, or map based travelling (by foot)

[deerforest]

Not sure of the age, but when my DD was about 3-4, she was really into maps. Some of her favorite books at the time (and we even had to save them in our memory box) are:

- Me on the Map

- Mapping Penny's World

- As the Crow Flies

- Follow that Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills

[3 ladybugs]

I was really into maps as a child. Now this was the early 80's so one of the things I did was watch the weather channel... at least till we moved somewhere that didn't have cable then I didn't. Weather and geography I still like. :)

 

May not be exactly what the mother wants her child to see, but it could be helpful. 

[La Condessa]

Thank you! I will pass these ideas along.

 

She is almost 5.

[Janeway]

We use these Maps books by MCP.

[mathmarm]

Tell her parents to check out map blobbing. There is a blog that has templates to,get you started...halfahundredacrewoods.

[Eagle]

For that age I would recommend the Usborne Lift-the-flap Picture Atlas.

[Tsuga]

This is one of those threads where I am just going to end up buying things for myself to look at. I love all these map books!!!!

[MorningGlory]

This thread warms my heart. My 18 year old son has been seriously studying maps since he was a toddler. He was a late birth, and we have always teased him that he was too busy mapping to be born! It seems like just yesterday that he was this age. 

 

Anyway, he has always focused on the maps themselves (not cultures or physical geography...although that interests him, too). When he was 5, he was especially interested in how streets in cities and countrysides were interrelated. We bought him multiple Rand McNally street guides (such as http://amzn.com/0528866826) and Road Atlases and the like. He drew the entire street atlas of our county during the summer between K and 1st, and it was amazingly detailed (multiple pages in a three-ring binder). He has shelves and milk crates full of atlases and large maps on his walls (some purchased from the U.S. Geological Survey). He also plays around with Google Earth a lot. 

 

Now, many years later, he still draws maps. Daily. He likes to say that he draws maps instead of playing video games. His maps are works of art drawn on large higher-quality art paper. Right now he is working on a map of the Lower St. Lawrence River. This son will leave for college in a few months, and I am certain that he will continue to study and draw maps in his spare time.

 

Maps are a fascinating interest and hobby that can last a lifetime!

[Indian summer]

Daily Geography is all about map reading and geography (obviously) :hurray:

 

This was my dds favourite workbook series throughout our homeschooling.