Maps and Globes Fill in the Blank

1st Grade Social StudiesMaps and Globes3 pages

About this worksheet

A short class story drives this 1st grade maps and globes cloze. Students fill 12 blanks from a 12-word box, including globe, round, flat, symbol, key, and compass, as the class uses a map to find the best way to the park. The passage contrasts the round globe with the flat map and ends with the N on the compass rose. A Your Turn section asks students to finish "I would use a map to" and draw that map. The answer key gives the full passage. It fits the C3 Framework indicators D2.Geo.3.K-2 and D2.Geo.1.K-2.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.Geo.3.K-2

“Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.”

The first paragraph has students name the globe as a model of the Earth that shows blue water and green land.

D2.Geo.1.K-2

“Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places.”

Your Turn has students draw a simple map of a place they chose, with paths and symbols.

What's inside this worksheet

Finding Our Way

Students read four short paragraphs and write a word from the box in each blank. The teacher shows a globe that spins and is round like a ball, then a map that is flat like paper, then a symbol for a big slide, the key, and the compass rose.

Your Turn

Students finish the sentence "I would use a map to ______________." and draw the map they wrote about.

Answer Key

The completed passage reads globe, round, water, land, map, flat, find, park, symbol, key, compass, and north.

How teachers use it

Echo reading

Read each paragraph with a hum for each blank, and have students echo it. Hearing the gap makes words like round and flat easy to place.

Word box check

The box has 12 words and every one is used once. Tell students to cross each word off as they go, so the last blanks almost fill themselves.

Writing extension

Your Turn answers range from finding a friend's house to looking for treasure. Pick three and let the class vote on which map to draw together.

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