Travel the world from the comfort of your classroom with a instructional activity that features Google Earth. High schoolers follow a series of steps to locate places all over the earth with sets of coordinates. Additionally, they...

Here is your go-to student resource on primary geography concepts, including facts about the surface of the earth and its hemispheres, latitude and longitude, globes, types of maps, and identifying continents and oceans.

Spark interest and enhance your pupils' map skills using Matteo Pericoli's book, See the City: the Journey of Manhattan Unfurled. Through Pericoli's illustrations and text, learners explore the East and West...

Get out the compass and a pencil its time to use a coordinate grid to practice mapping skills. Young cartographers use the prompts and provided grid to plot locations, draw parallel lines, and determine distances between points. 

Introduce your class to map projections and coordinates, the basics for the work done in a GIS, with an activity that uses Google Earth to challenge learners to think about the earth's shape. 

Where in the world are we? As a reading comprehension exercise, kids read a short passage about navigation using latitude and longitude, and then respond to a series of questions based on the article.

Assess your learners on the five themes of geography and the most important key terms and concepts from an introductory geography unit. Here you'll find an assessment with 15 fill-in-the-blank and 14 multiple-choice questions, sections...

In this map worksheet, students match a set of descriptions with the names of different types of maps and answer true/false questions and short answer questions about using maps.

What do we use to determine the exact locations on the earth? Your kids can learn all about compass roses and latitude and longitude. Test understanding with the five reading comprehension questions included on the page.

In this map worksheet, students complete 6 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions about 3 different map figures.

In this map skills worksheet, students read a text selection about locations during the American Revolution and then respond to 8 fill in the blank questions.

In this longitude worksheet, students read a 3-paragraph review of longitude and respond to 13 short answer questions.

In this geography skills worksheet, students read 5-travel scenarios and use their problem solving skills to respond to 9 short answer questions.

Continuing their study of beneficial insects, young entomologists discover where in the world some of these bugs are. By labeling, coloring, and using the scale on a map, pupils explore the territories and arrival of the Asian lady...

Explore our world from within as you lead young scientists on a thrilling adventure. Pupils examine the location of plate boundaries to determine earthquake and volcano distribution around the globe and explore the cause of hot spots in...

Assist your pupils and broaden their horizons with several activities that determine the exact positioning of various communities over the globe. Pupils use data from the Global Positioning System to determine the position and rate of...

Find out if your class agrees with Ice Age: Continental Drift ... or if it's just a fun family movie! Class members research the theory of continental drift, examine evidence of plate tectonics, connect...

For this geography worksheet, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about hemispheres, maps, cities, ecology, and more. Students complete 25 questions.

In this cardinal directions worksheet, students read a 2-page review of cardinal directions and use a globe to respond to 5 questions.

In this latitude learning exercise, students read a 3-paragraph review of latitude and respond to 12 short answer questions.

In this review of various skills worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about Georgia history, references, fiction and nonfiction, and U.S. history. Students answer 12 questions.

A whale of a lesson is sure to intrigue your elementary oceanographers! Learn about the mammals of the sea with a series of activities about whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Kids complete worksheets about the anatomy of a whale, create a...

There are patterns in nearly everything — even earthquakes. Pairs research current earthquakes to see if there are any patterns. They determine the mean, median, and mode of the earthquake data, along with the maximum and...

Young adventurers embark on a journey, setting sail along the blue ocean with Christopher Columbus. Teachers will find that this unit makes their lesson planning smooth sailing!