In this Americas physical map worksheet, students make note of the major landforms and bodies of water located on the North American and South American continents.

In this North America and South America outline map activity, students examine the political boundaries of the 2 continents.

In this South America political map learning exercise, students examine the country boundaries. The map also labels each of the countries and their capitals.

In this geography skills worksheet, students read an instructional passage regarding daylight hours and then respond to 5 short answer questions.

In this locating places activity, students locate locations by referring to the absolute locations and finding out the coordinates for each location. Students complete 16 problems.

Pupils explore the concept of intermediate directions. In this geography skills lesson plan, students use map skills in order to identify intermediate directions as they complete a map activity.

In this absolute location worksheet, students read a 2-paragraph review of locating places and respond to 16 short answer questions.

Students demonstrate how to use the global grid system. For this map skills lesson, students use a world map to locate various locations. Students identify locations based on the global grid system. Students complete a worksheet as an...

Students create topography relief maps. In this geography skills lesson, students review geography core knowledge skills, design and make a state relief map, and compile a student atlas.

Learners complete geography and trade activities about global trade. In this geography and trade lesson, students read information to learn about absolute advantage, comparative advantage, trade factors, U.S. trade partners, and...

In this Peru activity, students label places in Peru and draw, trace, and color parts of the country as well. Students complete 11 activities.

Students explore the concept of absolution location. In this geography skills lesson, students discuss how to identify and locate latitude and longitude. Students play a game to reinforce the skills.

In this Philippines worksheet, students answer multiple choice, short answer, true and false questions, and more about the Philippines. Students complete 17 questions.

Students locate and identify cocoa-growing regions around the world. They discuss why it is grown there and how the climate and conditions needed are different from those in their hometowns. They play a true or false game about Ghana.

In this geography worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle related to the countries, capitals, bodies of water, and populations of South America. They use the 23 clues given to solve the puzzle.

Third graders study and diagram the positions of the Earth and sun during the four seasons. They predict weather for cities in the northern and southern hemispheres.

In this latitude worksheet, students answer questions about latitude that include absolute locations of countries and coordinates. Students complete 12 questions.

Sixth graders examine the purposes of maps.  For this Geography lesson, 6th graders practice using latitude and longitude on a map. 

Students draw a picture and label the layers of a rain forest in Africa.

Pupils play a bingo-type game to locate cities by coordinates. They explain the use of orientation on a map and identify cities in the western hemisphere. They compare road maps, shutttle images, and a CIR image and obtain an...

Students practice making a map of a continent and correctly plotting five cities on that map. They place latitude and longitude lines on a map, determine the need for various map projections and explain why map scales are necessary.

Students create a "Landform Dictionary". They develop an overlay map and participate in hands-on activities to identify the key characteristics of landforms. They discuss the plant and animal life of these areas. Handouts for the lessons...

Students locate and identify the four major oceans and the seven continents on a world map. They use an unlabeled world map and compass rose to describe relative locations of the continents and oceans.

Second graders look at the United States often over the next few months. Help them to see how the United States has changed as territories have become states. They may be surprised to know the areas of our country that were territories...