LATITUDE & LONGITUDE complete lesson with Animated PPT, Worksheets & Answers

A ready-to-teach lesson on finding any place on Earth using latitude and longitude. Latitude is colour-coded orange and longitude green on every slide and worksheet page, which helps students who struggle with reading.

What’s included:

22-slide PowerPoint with speaker notes and click-to-reveal answers
7-page editable Word worksheet that matches the slides, with an answer key for the teacher

Lesson content:

Do Now retrieval starter
The Equator, the Prime Meridian and the four hemispheres, taught through labelled globe diagrams
Memory tricks and a catchy song to help students tell latitude from longitude
Worked examples and practice reading and plotting coordinates on a world map
Slides on common mistakes, plus mini-whiteboard questions to check understanding
A stretch challenge comparing places near to and far from the Equator
True/false exit ticket

The lesson works for mixed-ability classes, with word banks and sentence starters for support and a challenge task to stretch higher attainers.