Map Skills Project Based Learning Pirate Treasure Map w/ Landforms & Communities

Need to assess your students' map skills in a fun engaging way? This project-based learning activity assesses elementary student map skills by having them bury their pirate treasure! Students become actively engaged in designing their own island and mapping the route to X Marks the Spot!

A great resource for teaching and assessing basic map skills in your social studies classroom! This pirate project includes landforms and community services to make a comprehensive map assessment.

This map skills activity is designed to capture your students’ interests while assessing their map skills. Students won’t even know they are being assessed! This treasure map project is created to be intrinsically motivational- most students love being pirates for a couple of days!

Although this map project can be used as a culminating activity, it can also be used as a spring board for new learning of map skills. Feel free to use it as it suits your students best!

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This Resource is Helpful for:

☑Grade level teachers wanting to teach or assess students’ basic mapping skills and knowledge of landforms and community services

☑Social Studies specialist that want to assess students’ mapping skills

☑Gifted teachers looking to enrich their students with Project Based Learning

☑Special education teachers hoping to spark students’ interest

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Here’s What You Can Expect to See in this Resource:

►2 project options: one with ONLY landforms and one with landforms and community services. Pick the one that best suits your classroom’s needs.

►Tips for a successful project

►Clear and easy-to-follow student directions. Each part is broken down into step-by-step instructions.

►Student checklists to help keep their work focused and going in the right direction.

►A project rubric for students to self-evaluate and for teachers to assess student work.

►Sample student work that can be assessed as a class using the rubric

►Extension activities for students that finish early. Students can write creatively as they fill out their Captain’s Log

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In this project, students will use map skills to:

★Design their own islands

★Place labels on their treasure map

★Place landforms and community services on their islands

★Construct a map key with symbols

★Create a compass rose with cardinal and intermediate directions

★Use directionality to go from landform to landform and to the buried treasure

★Write out the path to their buried treasure using cardinal and intermediate directions

Students will apply basic map skills throughout the project!

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This project covers the same activities as my Project Based Learning: Alien Planet Map project only with pirates instead of aliens.

• Project Based Learning: Alien Planet Map

Here is what teachers like you are saying about the project!

Sally said, “I was so tired of grading plain old tests. This is now one of my favorite Social Studies projects because every single one of them is unique, and it still gives them the opportunity to test their map skills. This is one of my favorite products I have ever purchased!!”

3rd Grade Dreamers said, “This was the best map skill project I have ever found. My kids learned so many things all in one project. I also have received many compliments from my fellow teachers on them because they are hanging up in the hallway. Thank you so much!”

Leonor said, “Wonderful and invaluable resource! I can tell so much thought and effort has been put into everything. This makes my planning and teaching so much easier and better! Thanks so much for your dedication to quality material!”

Michelle said, “Extremely thorough, well laid out, and even differentiated! I wish everything on TPT was as well done as this! the projects came out WONDERFULLY!”

Check out my other pirate projects:

• HOTS Reading Response Pack: Pirates

• Project Based Learning with STEM: Pirates

• Project Based Learning with STEM: Pirates Bundle

• Mapping Continents and Oceans PBL: Treasure Map

Check out my other mapping projects:
• Mapping Continents and Oceans PBL: Track Down Visiting Aliens

• Mapping Continents and Oceans PBL: Treasure Map

• Project Based Learning: Alien Planet Map

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