Developing atlas skills through crosswords – Ages 8–10

An innovative delivery of atlas skills

Developing atlas skills through crosswords is a series of blackline masters designed to expand students’ knowledge of their physical world. Using crosswords as their medium, the activities encourage students to use a hands-on approach to exploring the atlas, the Internet and other reference sources. They also explain and reinforce the concepts of time differences (GMT), distance scales and eight main compass points.

Features:

• utilises atlas skills to complete crosswords
• additional background information, hints and explanations for specified clues
• concise student instructions for completing the crosswords
• a list of places used in the crosswords
• specific teacher information about latitude and longitude
• specific teacher information about the use of an atlas index
• requires students to continually use the eight main compass points
• answers
• outcome links