The bright, easy-to-follow illustrations do an excellent job of highlighting all the major concepts, and definitions of all the important terms are presented in bold type on each spread for extra clarity. Since Ritchie’s emphasis is on helping kids to build mapping skills, he takes an active approach, using five spunky characters and a missing-pets adventure to walk his readers through a series of questions designed to test these skills. 2009, Great Teachers Projects, Boston Mills Press, Laura Mayne. Follow That Map is a mind-expanding adventure for the. Scot Ritchie is the author of Follow That Map (4.03 avg rating, 203 ratings, 37 reviews, published 2008), Look Where We Live (3.82 avg rating, 108 rati. Veteran illustrator Scot Ritchie has created an easy-to-follow primer that shows young readers how the basic elements of maps (keys, legends, symbols, directions, etc.) work, while explaining other important aspects of mapping, such as how to use maps to determine direction, the different kinds of maps, and even how to create a map 2009, Follow That Map A First Book of Mapping Skills Kids Can Press. Read Follow That Map A First Book of Mapping Skills by Scot Ritchie available from Rakuten Kobo. GPS and other digital technologies are easily available to steer the adults in their lives in the right direction.īut even with all this technology, youngsters still need to learn how to read graphical representations of places, landmarks, bodies of water, and the like.

There are countless sites online, well-known to kids of all ages, that provide directions for getting wherever you want to go.

The Internet, and digital technology in general, has made huge changes to the way we get from point A to point B.

Follow that map by scot ritchie