Awesome Atlas Activities has been designed to support students in developing knowledge and understanding about world geography. It includes activities that relate to continents, countries, capital cities, physical features and native animals.

The activities emphasize mapping concepts and skills and using an atlas, while also incorporating the key essential learning areas of English and mathematics.

Activities are presented for each continent in a sequence as follows:
      • creating continent maps using grid coordinates;
      • using an atlas to locate places and physical features;
      • using compass directions to describe the location of places;
      • constructing and interpreting bar graphs of rivers, mountains and areas;
      • drawing native animals using grid coordinates; and
      • learning about animals through various challenge activities such as cloze, crosswords, word searches, alphabetical order, etc.

Awesome Atlas Activities provides librarians and classroom teachers with a resource that is comprehensive, fully photocopiable and easy to use. It provides students with interesting, unique and challenging activities that allow them to explore the world in which they live.

Download the Table of Contents page here.

Grades 5-8.