Tom Snyder Productions

Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0

For Grades 1 – 5
Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0

Create, navigate, and print community maps while building essential skills!

With this hands-on program, students create and navigate maps of their own neighborhoods, other communities, or imaginary places — all while learning challenging navigation concepts.

Product Features

  • Easily create and customize community maps
  • 25 standards-aligned activities in social studies, math, and language arts
  • Solve map mysteries using a compass for navigation
  • 80 fun map symbols plus paint tools
  • Learn challenging concepts such as grid coordinates, location, scale, and compass navigation
  • Pre- and post-tests to assess students' understanding
  • On-screen notebook with audio recorder for students to describe their maps orally or in writing
  • Add photos, sounds, and movies to any map symbol to personalize your maps
  • Link directly to the internet from any symbol and publish interactive maps on the web
  • Present maps with printouts, in a slideshow, or on the internet
  • Create 3-D models of neighborhoods with paper cutouts of buildings
  • Bilingual — switch easily between English and Spanish
  • Great for individual or whole-class use

Meets State and National Standards


Your students will:

  • Locate places using the four cardinal directions
  • Use scale to determine the distance between places on maps
  • Identify and use the compass rose, grid, and symbols to locate places on maps
  • Use written language to communicate directions
  • Calculate, compare, and convert length, perimeter, and area
Peggy Healy Stearns, Ph.D.

Peggy Healy Stearns, Ph.D.

Peggy's innovative designs and intimate understanding of how to engage and teach children are reflected in this and other award-winning software programs she has developed. Read more about Peggy on our Authors page.


Community Construction Kit

Community Construction Kit

The perfect complement to Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0, where students design and assemble cutout communities for their neighborhood maps.