Me On The Map Book Companion + Lesson Plan Activity

Students record where they live at expanding scales, from home and street up to country, continent, and world, building a flip-book keyed to reading the picture book Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney.

Year groups: Nursery, Nursery, Primary, Years 2–3
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Nov 27, 2021

Subject: Geography, Social Studies
Topic: Social Studies Activity, Geography Activity
Resource types: Workbooks, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation: Print ready

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About this resource

Paired with a read-aloud of the picture book Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney, this activity has students record where they live at progressively larger scales — home, street, town, state (or province), country, continent, and world — on a set of circle pages that are cut out, stacked in order, and bound together with a brass fastener into a flip-book. Two versions of the flip-book are provided: one using 'state' and 'United States of America' labels for US classrooms, and one using 'province' for classrooms outside the US, alongside a separate teacher instruction section covering printing each page a different colour, adding a custom map photo in Adobe Acrobat, and using an included planning sheet so students can note their information before starting. Two styles of a fill-in planning sheet let a teacher choose whether to pre-fill student information or have students complete it independently, with a checkbox system so students can track which sections are finished. The activity builds the same nested-community concept as its companion book, moving from the smallest personal scale to the whole world.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify personal address information (home, street, town) as the starting point for locating oneself on a map
Sequence nested geographic scales from home up through state/province, country, continent, and world
Distinguish between 'state' and 'province' as the correct term depending on a student's country

Teaching tips

Read Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney aloud before starting the activity, since the product is explicitly designed as its companion
Pre-fill the planning sheet with each student's address information ahead of time if students are not yet able to spell their own street or town names
Have students write their name on the back of each cut-out circle before assembly, to avoid losing pieces before binding
Print each flip-book page on a different coloured paper so the layered circles stay visually distinct once bound

Skills covered

Nested geographic scale sequencing — students order their personal information from home up through street, town, state/province, country, continent, and world.
Personal information recall — students record their own address, town, and country using a planning sheet before transferring it to the flip-book.
Flip-book assembly — students cut, stack, and bind their circle pages in order using a brass fastener.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Why are there separate 'state' and 'province' versions of the flip-book pages?

The product includes a version using 'state' and 'United States of America' for US classrooms, and a separate version using 'province' for classrooms in other countries where that is the correct regional term.

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Core concepts

Community and geography scale
Map skills
Personal address

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