Map Skills Worksheet 1
Up to date worksheet for map skills for any Geography curriculum and Key Stage.
Includes:
4fig grid references
6fig grid references
direction
compass
scale
map symbols
and more
Conjunctions Tube Map Display
Everything you need to create a display to remind students to use conjunctions in their writing. Designed in the style of a London Underground or tube map, each line of the map represents a different conjunction group with the stations represented by the conjunctions themselves, all colour coded. Note that the title in the middle will say ‘Conjunction Tube Map’ (not ‘Connective’). Simply print, laminate, cut and put up your display. It can be organised in whatever way you choose, but an image is supplied as a guide or suggestion. Hope you find it useful!
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Christmas Geography Lesson - Mapping presents! Map skills, grid references and co-ordinates.
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The lesson
A super fun, well planned and engaging Christmas lesson that teaches and uses map skills to track down Santa’s lost presents. The Christmas lesson starts with a complete walk through on map reading and then has different activities that can be displayed on the board. It could easily take up 2 lessons depending on prior ability or speed you cover the mapping intro.
Suitable for KS3, KS4 and KS5 groups the lesson includes activities where students need to give 6 figure (or 4 if you prefer) grid references for the lost presents as well as answer questions about their location, measure distances and map symbols.
This lesson is a perfect way to have some Christmas themed fun but keep students learning and practice skills that are useful in exams.
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Christmas-Themed Geography Map Skills Activity Booklet
Are you ready to turn this holiday season into a global adventure for your young explorers? Introducing our enchanting Christmas-themed geography map skills activity booklet, specially crafted for curious minds aged 10-14!
Festive Learning Fun: Transform geography lessons into a holiday celebration! Each activity is designed to weave Christmas magic into essential map skills, making learning both educational and joyous.
Engaging and Age-Appropriate: Tailored for 9-12 year olds, our activities strike the perfect balance between challenge and entertainment. Watch as your child hones their map-reading skills while embracing the holiday spirit.
Santa’s Global Adventure: Follow Santa’s journey around the world! From the North Pole to bustling cities and exotic landmarks, each activity unveils a new destination, fostering cultural awareness and geographical knowledge.
Map Skills Included:
Grid References
Scale & Distance
Compass Directions
Contour Lines
Time Zones
A total of 14 activity pages with answers included.
Religious Studies GCSE Revision Maps
A bundle of fun, clearly laid-out revision maps to help condense a unit into memorable revision notes.
These revision maps are for Religious Studies GCSE. They are specifically made for WJEC/Eduqas but could also be used to support students in AQA and Edexcel.
They are best printed on A3 for students to fill in when revising set units.
This also includes one filled-in revision map which could be used as demonstrating or a starting point for completing the maps.
The topics included are:
Christianity (one for beliefs and one for practices)
Islam (one for beliefs and one for practices)
Good and Evil
Relationships
Human Rights
Life and Death
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World Map with Coordinates
A simple coloured world map with coordinates. Children can use the map to become familiar with countries, continents, oceans and seas! Also using their coordinates skills. Can be printed A4/A3 depending on use.
Geography Christmas mapping lesson! KS3 KS4 SEN Plan Santa´s journey with maps, compass and scale
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The lesson
A well planned and really fun Geography Christmas mapping lesson suitable for all ages at secondary and all abilities that uses lots of Geographical skills!
This lesson contains a full walk through on how to use a compass, scale and map so can easily be taught by non-specialists and supports students who might struggle by using examples.
Task 1: Reading directions on a map. Students use a world map to note down which direction Santa is travelling as he moves from country to country.
**Task 2: **Reading scale on a map. Students use the scale to measure the distances Santa has travelled.
**Task 3: **Plotting Santa´s journey across the world. Students measure direction and distance and plot Santa´s movements on the map, revealing a hidden message if they do it correctly… XMas!
The lesson contains starters, challenges and extensions and is well organised with a title and clear learning objectives.
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Introduction to OS map skills and map symbols
Lesson covers what maps are used for and how to read map symbols
Map Skills - Map Symbols
This map skills lesson is about map symbols. It is suitable for key stage 2 and 3 and takes 50 mins to 1 hour. The lesson includes some creative writing where students substitute words for map symbols. Within the presentation are all the printable material to support this lesson
It contains:
Three Three levels of differentiation
Starter and plenary
Printable material
Engaging game activity
Printable resource
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KS3 Map Skills
Full unit of work for map and graph skills. All lessons are fully resourced. Lessons are designed to last for 50-60 minutes. Lessons are resourced with videos, extension questioning, deep thinking and uses graphs/images to aid learning.
These lessons follow the Oxford KS3 curriculum and look at;
Continents & Countries
Map Skills
Directions
Distance & Scale
Grid References
Longitude & Latitude
Height
OS Symbols
Graph Skills
Each lesson includes a starter, lesson objective, plenary and various student led activities.
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Map Skills End of Topic Assessment
An end of unit test for year 7.
Includes all major map skills such as compass points, grid references, scale, longitude/latitude and relief. Also includes mark scheme, self reflection sheet and differentiated. DIRT tasks require foundations textbook or could be adapted to suit.
** World blank map **
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Maps
A selection of maps including a child's simple map and a bird's eye view map of a school. Please leave a comment if you have time!












