This 3-page 4th grade worksheet gives students practice reading coordinates on a grid. Page 1 shows an invented island with latitude lines from 10°N to 40°N and longitude lines from 10°W to 40°W, plus a reminder to write latitude first. Six places sit where lines cross. Page 2 has ten questions in two parts, and page 3 lists the answers.
“Read and write latitude and longitude coordinates for a place on a grid map.”
Questions 1 to 6 ask for the coordinates of six places on the island.
“Name the place at a given pair of coordinates.”
Questions 7 to 10 give coordinates and ask which place is there.
A lighthouse, forest, village, volcano, castle and harbor, each marked with a dot where two lines cross. Degree labels run along all four edges of the map.
Six boxes ask for the coordinates of the lighthouse, village, volcano, harbor, forest and castle.
Four boxes give a pair of coordinates, such as 20°N, 30°W, and students write the place found there.
All ten answers, for example 40°N, 40°W for the lighthouse and Village for 30°N, 20°W.
Latitude first
Point to the reminder on page 1 and have the class say latitude first aloud. Then answer question 1 together on the board.
Matching pairs
Questions 2 and 10, 3 and 7, 4 and 9, and 5 and 8 use the same four places in opposite directions. A student who gets one right and the other wrong has usually swapped the two numbers.
Draw an island
Ask students to draw their own island on graph paper, mark three places and swap with a partner. Writing coordinates for places they chose shows quickly who has the order right.
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