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The Once Upon a Time Map Book: Take a Tour of Six Enchanted Lands by B. G. Hennessy
The Scary Places Map Book by B.G. Hennessy
My pop-up world atlas / [written by] Anita Ganeri and [illustrations by] Stephen Waterhouse

Armadillos by Julie Murray
The Armadillo who came for Dinner by Steve Smallman

Me on the Map
Henry's Map by David Elliot
From Here to There: A First Book of Maps by Vivian French
Follow that Map by Sherri Tan
Follow That Map! A First Look at Mapping Skills by Ritchie, Scot
Captain Dom's Treasure by Jennings, Terry Catasús
How to Read a Map by Waldron, Melanie
How do you read maps by Philip Wolny
Pete the cat and the treasure map
Help find Frank by Ann Bollman
Lucy in the City: a Story About Developing Spatial Thinking Skills by Dillemuth, Julie
Camilla, Cartographer by Dillemuth, Julie
Mapping Sam by Hesselberth, Joyce
How to Find Gold by Schwarz, Viviane
Mapping Penny's World by Leedy, Loreen
Kat's Maps by Scieszka, Jon
Map my country by Jennifer Boothroyd, and Map My Continent, Map My Home, Map My Neighborhood, Map My Room, and Map My State
Cat in the hat knows a lot about that : There's a map on my lap! by Tish Rabe
The Boy Who Loved Maps by Allen, Kari
What a Map Can Do by Gabrielle Balkan
Martha Maps It Out by Leigh Hodgkinson
The journey of Oliver K. Woodman by Darcy Pattison
Searching for Oliver K. Woodman by Darcy Pattison
Magnolia's Magnificent Map by Bradshaw, Lauren
Looking at maps and globes / by Rebecca Olien
North, South, East, and West by Meg Greve
Where do I live? / Neil Chesanow
As the crow flies : a first book of maps / by Gail Hartman
The problem with early navigation tools / by Ryan Nagelhout

My crafty kid loved making this.

• link: http://kidworldcitizen.org/2011/11/26/my-place-in-the-world-project/

Questing is a treasure hunting activity that involves interpretation of maps, exploration of local natural and cultural areas, and finding a hidden stamp. According to Wikipedia, Questing is "a game played across a community or geographic place. Originally coined in the USA, it is similar to the concept of letterboxing where clues lead to sealed boxes to be found in a type of treasure hunt."

We kicked off Lesson 1 by creating a Quest that lead our friends around a local park in search of a hidden stamp. As a family, we worked together to create a map of the park and a series of clues. I then hid the Quest and my son (age 6) tested the quest by following the clues, the map, and the compass. It was great fun and would be easy to replicate in other communities.

Here are a few examples of quests:

http://www.vitalcommunities.org/valleyquest/index.cfm

http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu/visitor/oregon-coast-quests

http://www.ohioanderiecanalway.com/Main/Pages/73.aspx

We expanded our study on map keys by doing the Adventure Island game on National Geographic.The game uses an interactive format to demonstrate how keys are symbols for objects on a map.

• link: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive/ma

We used National Geographic Education's interactive map maker. Excellent, fun tool to create the map of your state online. My son enjoyed it a lot!

You can see my blog post about it here

http://www.raisingaselfreliantchild.com/2012/03/27/using-maps-and-globes-day-2/

• link: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/interactive-map/?

We used google earth satellite and started with our home. We could even see the rooftop, and one of our toys in the yard! Then we slowly zoomed out so he could see where our house was in relationship to our town, our town to our state, our state to our country, our country to our continent, and so on.

This video goes well with the Armadillo from Amarillo story where the Armadillo blasts off into space. In the video, you can see from the space shuttle what the world (especially Florida) looks like as you blast into space.

• link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qWWgvzWHUs