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Exploring the Map of Morocco
In this exploring the map of Morocco worksheet, students find and label cities, islands, bodies of water, mountains, deserts and other countries around Morocco.
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Exploring a Map of Canada
In this exploring a map of Canada worksheet, students find and label the capital city, bodies of water, the U.S., the provinces and the territories of Canada.
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Map of Argentina
In this map of Argentina worksheet, students label key areas, cities, bodies of water and surrounding countries, then color the map according to directions.
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USA Map
In this United States political map worksheet, students examine state boundaries. The map may be used in a variety of classroom activities.
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Home Tour
In this exchange student lesson, young scholars create a story about an exchange student. Students draw a map to show the location of community buildings and practice providing directions from location to location.
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Map of Italy
In this map of Italy worksheet, students find, color and label cities, surrounding countries, bodies of water and landforms in the country of Italy.
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Turkey: Bridge Between East and West
Ninth graders study the geography of Turkey. In this Geography lesson, 9th graders examine the characteristics of Turkey. Students create an annotated map of Turkey.
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Map of Egypt
In this map of Egypt worksheet, students label the cities, bodies of water, surrounding countries and color the map according to the directions.
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Map of India
In this map of India activity, students label the capital city, the bodies of water and the compass points, then color the surrounding colors according to directions.
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Using Maps
In this using maps worksheet, student use a small map to find different routes between cities, then find the shortest route by adding the mileage.
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New York: Agricultural Products Maps
For this agricultural products worksheet, 4th graders use the information on four maps of New York Agriculture to make a comprehensive map of all products and answer four questions.
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Mapping the New World Lesson Plan
Young scholars compare two maps of the same area from different time periods. In this American History lesson, students look at two maps of the English colonies from 1636 and 1651. They discuss why the maps changed and predict maps from...
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How Far Away is a Tropial Rainforest?
Students explore how far a rainforest is from their home. In this rainforest lesson students examine how far they live away from the rainforest. Students use the length of their school day to compare how long it will take to travel to...
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Exploring the USA and the World with Cartograms
Middle schoolers investigate cartograms in order to explore the different countries on Earth. In this world geography activity, students use the Internet to analyze data on different cartograms. Middle schoolers compare data, such as...
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Lesson Plan for a 5th Grade Science Class
Sixth graders use the SQ3R reading strategy to learn about the behavior of light. In this behavior of light activity, 6th graders read a selection about the behavior of light and use the strategy to complete the reading. Students make a...
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Spatial Connections
Students use maps, scales, and describe locations in order to learn about spatial sense. In this spatial sense lesson plan, students participate in many activities for this spatial sense unit that should last throughout the year.
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European Agriculture
Students make inferences on how physical geography affected the development of early civilizations and come up with solutions to global issues. For this physical geography lesson plan, students compare maps of the past to maps of today...
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Ancient Mediterranean Lands: Greece
Middle schoolers study maps and structures of Ancient Greece and realize how these structures impact times. In this structures lesson plan, students view the structures of how Ancient Greece was put together and discuss how these...
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Flat Earth Society
Students explore map distortion. In this geography lesson, students compare Mercator projection maps to globes in order to understand the strengths and weaknesses of projection maps.
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Memorable Maps
Students draw an assigned map from memory about the United States or any other region they are studying. For this maps lesson plan, students draw a map from their memory at the beginning of the year, and do the same assignment at the end...
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Where's the Sand?
Students identify the characteristics of deserts. In this geography lesson plan, students discuss the characteristics of a desert and label a map with the names of deserts.
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United States Map - Lesson 9
Students explore the concept of cardinal directions. In this geography lesson plan, students identify the compass rose on a large U. S. map and then discuss the cardinal directions.
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Latitude on World Maps - World Map Activity 2
Learners explore the concept of latitude. In this geography lesson, students discover the global grid system and complete a map activity which require them to record the latitude of various cities in the world.
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Geography Words, Page 1
In this geography words and maps activity, students examine maps of North and South America. Students respond to 12 multiple choice questions regarding the maps.