25 Map Crosswords: Ready-to-Go Reproducible Maps With Crossword Puzzles to Teach Key Geography Skills and Build Content-Area Vocabulary (Teaching Resources)

This is a great resource for certain topics and a great sub lesson. I’ve used this book for years and just bought for my school who just became a teacher. A must have if your a history teacher.

This have been a very helpful map resource in my classroom. I like that the students have to really think and be able to interpret/read maps to answer the crossword puzzles.

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In a word--Wow!As a school librarian, I look for good, practical, teaching items to place in the Professional Library for teacher check-out only. This workbook, "25 Map Crosswords: Ready-to-go Reproducible Maps with Crossword Puzzles to Teach Key Geography Skills and Build Content-Area Vocabulary," is an astonishing source to teach all kinds of map skills--you know the kind--on all those high-stakes tests!Frankly, if I were a classroom teacher, I would buy my own copy to avoid potential absence of the book when needed (potential absence=already checked out). However, I know that some teachers cannot afford such expenses, so I try to help through the library. The maps go beyond what you might imagine. They afford practical, real-world experience, plus that pre-testing advantage. When I taught English at the high school level, English teachers were responsible for teaching how to read graphs and charts. Some of these "maps" fall into those categories.Let's examine a couple:(Note: I bought my copy based on a vague description. I want to give readers more precise information. Why? Because this workbook is worth every penny--and more!!)(The 25 maps are arranged in an increasingly higher level of thinking.)Example 1: (the first one) It is called "Highways" with the map set in Arizona. The introductory note tells the student that "Highway maps don't just show where roads lead to. They also show the different types of maps...."A sample question: "Routes 80 and 10 come together in which town?" This answer goes in Down 13. In addition to the map and crossword, each item is set on two pages and always contains at least one block of factoids. "Highways: Arizona" has this: Today there are more than 42,000 miles of interstate highways....The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 authorized construction of the interstate highway system." I'm glad to know students will learn that!Example 2: "Religions: World", pp. 32-33. Introductory note: "This map shows the major religions of the world....useful for learning the culture of a place." The factoid block tells the reader that Christianity has two billion followers, while Islam has one billion. A sample question: "This continent has more different religions than any other" (Across 14).Other examples include Growth of Railroads: Europe, Products: Montana, Precipitation: Africa, City Map: London, Physical: Antarctica, Comparing maps: Baseball teams, 1952 to 1995, Subway: Washington, D.C., Metro, and Population Cartogram: World.As you can see, these examples cover a wide range and variety of topics. What a teaching tool each one is!!To whom do I recommend this workbook? To all teachers, both elementary and high school, of social studies and English/Reading. It is labeled for ages 9-12, but it would be quite effective in the general high school geography, English, and history classes. As the social studies teacher in my school noted, "You cannot teach the whys and wherefores of maps too many times."Three last words: Buy this now!