Resource 2: Kid's Road Atlas Author's Comments This book gave an up-close look at the state's geography allowing us to focus on map skills and directions. One of our favorite parts of this study was using the Kid's Road Atlas. It resembles our grown-up versions so the kids got a very realistic view of studying road maps. We would simply ask them questions relating to what they had learned from the sticker book. Ex: When studying Kansas, since they knew where the capital was, we would ask, "Let's say we're at the capital and we need to drive to Wichita. What road would we take and what direction would we go?" (I-35, SW) "Now, we need to travel to Goodland. What road would we take and what direction would we go? Don't know where Goodland is?" Now we can look at the map guides on the edges to determine where Goodland is and then determine the road to take. We would use the sticker map to expand this learning by asking, "What direction is the Atlantic Ocean from Kansas? If we were going to visit Grandma in California, what direction would we go? If we are in Texas, what direction is Kansas?" There is much to learn about geography from reading maps. Best of all, for us as teachers, there was no prep. Some families choose to have their children share just one atlas while others prefer for all of their children to have individual copies.