Reading Maps and Images Homework

5th Grade Social StudiesGeography7 pages

About this worksheet

Seven pages of 5th grade geography homework start with a map students find at home, such as a road atlas, theme park guide, or subway map. They record its title, type, two legend symbols, and a question it could answer. Part 2 compares a street map and a satellite image of River Bend Park. Part 3 uses a town map with a compass rose, a river, and Main Street for relative location questions, including directions for the mayor. The 18 questions align with C3 Framework indicators D2.Geo.2.3-5 and D2.Geo.3.3-5, and the answer key includes examples for the at-home part.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.Geo.2.3-5

“Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.”

Part 2, where students compare a drawn map and a satellite image of the same park and decide which one answers each question.

D2.Geo.3.3-5

“Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.”

The home map in Part 1 and the town map in Part 3, where students read legends and use relative location words to describe where places are.

What's inside this worksheet

Map Scavenger Hunt

Questions 1 to 6. Students say where they found their map, choose its type (physical, political, road, or thematic), explain two symbols from the key, and write one question the map answers, such as "How far is it from Chicago to Detroit?"

Two Views of River Bend Park

Questions 7 to 13. Students list what each view shows better, pick the better image for property lines and for spotting evergreens in winter, answer two true-or-false items, and explain why geographers use more than one representation.

Navigating the Town

Questions 14 to 18. Students find the building north of the bridge, describe where the School is, write walking directions from the School to the Post Office, and mark an X for a bakery "along the river, west of Main Street."

How teachers use it

Weekend homework

Send it on a Friday so families have time to find a map. Keep a few printed park or transit maps in class for students who cannot find one at home.

Question 14 wording

Question 14 asks for the building directly north of the bridge, but the Library and the Post Office both sit just north of it, one on each side of Main Street. The key says Library, so decide ahead of time if both answers get credit.

Follow-up lesson

Ask students to bring their home maps back. Review question 17 on the board, since the bakery X only works if they know west is left of Main Street on the compass rose.

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