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Giant Traveling Maps

Photo: Kids on Africa Map

Photograph by Trent Campbell

National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps are enormously entertaining and educationally powerful tools for introducing geography and map reading skills to students, grades K-8.

What better way to teach young people the power of maps and the limitless depth of geography than a basketball court-sized map of a continent on which they can explore, travel from country to country, hop around, compete, collaborate and have lots of fun?

National Geographic’s Giant Traveling Maps, produced by National Geographic Live, tour the country’s schools, bringing hands- and feet-on geography education to 200,000 students each year. Designed to promote geographic literacy by igniting interest in geography, the maps and accompanying activities incorporate physical movement and games to teach students place names, physical geography, and cultural geography as well as map reading skills.

These enormous floor maps of Africa, Asia, and North America are available for loan, each accompanied by a set of ready-to-use activities and game props.

“The map was the best Social Studies activity I have seen in my 33 years of teaching.”
- Wisconsin Elementary Teacher

Read interview about Giant Traveling Maps with Dan Beaupré of National Geographic.

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