Map Mania: Discovering Where You are and Getting to Where You Aren't - Hardcover

Why get lost when you can map it out? You'll always know the right direction to travel with the special tricks you'll learn here. Starting from familiar territory (home, the back garden, the school playground) and moving outwards, this amusing, colourfully illustrated introduction to finding your way home - or anywhere you want to go - teaches children streetwise basics. Filled to the brim with fun games, creative activities, humorous quizzes and wacky facts. Build a model of an early compass to understand navigation. Discover orienteering, navigation and compass basics. Use the sun, sound and stars to get your bearings. Learn to use a star map. Learn about global positioning systems. Look at a map similar to the one used by Columbus when he discovered "America". Create your own maps. Learn about things that were "lost" from the mapped world: Atlantis, Bermuda Triangle, Flight 19, Treasure Island; Every colourful page takes a unique approach to maps and teaching basic geography to children.

You know where you're going, but do you know how to get there? Figuring it out is the fun part! Forget about that wishing upon a star stuff and look at the night sky to help you find your way. Or slice up the earth to get a sense of direction. Not the real planet, just a map of one! Then wrap it around a table tennis ball and you've got your own personal-sized globe. These are just some of the awesome ideas that will give you "map mania!"