Me on the Map Flipbook - Geography Review Activity

Where in the world are you? Help students connect their own lives to the wider world with this engaging Me on the Map flipbook! Students explore geographic locations, moving from the hemispheres to the town where they live, to build a better understanding of how places fit together.

This hands-on geography activity gives students an opportunity to review key concepts, make personal connections, and organize what they know about the world around them.

What's Included

• Detailed Lesson Plan

• Video & written printing instructions to help you assemble the flipbooks

• 6-Page Me on a Map Flipbook (low-ink, printer-friendly)

  • Editable field for state to replace with province or territory

• Planning page to help students confidently start their flipbooks

Skills Covered

• Understand the relative sizes of the hemispheres, continents, countries, states/provinces, towns/cities, and neighborhoods.

• Identify where you live in the world.

• Notice how the Earth is divided into smaller pieces.

• Identify and locate the student’s city, county, state, nation (country), and continent on a simple map or a globe. (Georgia 1.G.2.)

Why Teachers Love It

This Me on the Map flipbook helps students make geography personal and meaningful. By starting with a familiar place and connecting it to the wider world, students can better understand how locations relate to one another.

Use it for geography review, independent practice, a social studies center, or as a culminating activity after teaching foundational map skills.