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Play Map Adventures: Any Game!

 

Spatial Thinking
Digital

Play the Landmarks, Farm Map, City Map, or Goat Challenge games.

A boy plays the Gracie & Friends “Map Adventures” preschool spatial thinking app while a girl watches.

Now that children are familiar with all the games, they choose their own Map Adventure.

 

Materials

An iPad screen of the “Map Adventures” spatial thinking preschool app showing the cartoon character Gracie next to a cow.
  • Map Adventures digital game on the iPad (one for each pair of children)

Preparation

  1. Make sure the iPads are charged and Map Adventures is installed.
 

Directions

  1. Pass out iPads to pairs of children.
  2. Tell them to play together but to take turns choosing games to play.
Length of Play

10–15 min.

Group Size

Small group (2–4 children)

In the Schedule

Learning Centers

 
Vocabulary
  • map
  • landmark
  • route
  • right
  • left
  • around
  • onto
  • up
  • down
  • underneath
  • above
  • below
 
Learning Goals
  • Follow directions using spatial language to find or to position an object, person, or place in relation to something else
  • Understand and use the spatial words left and right
  • Use maps and diagrams to plan, describe, or follow paths or routes from one location to another
  • Develop an initial idea that maps, diagrams, and models can be representations of real-world spaces