Park Shape Map and Position Words

Kindergarten Social StudiesMaps and Locations3 pages

About this worksheet

Position words and a first simple map share this 3-page kindergarten sheet, printed as Playground Shape Map. In the first part, students look at a red ball on top of, under, and beside a blue block and write Above, Below, or Next to from a word bank. The second part is a park map drawn with shapes: an orange square sandbox, a blue circle pond, and a green triangle tent. Three questions ask about shapes and positions on the map. It supports C3 Framework D2.Geo.2.K-2, and the last page lists the expected answers.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D2.Geo.2.K-2

โ€œUse maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.โ€

The Park Map questions, where students use the map to say where the sandbox, pond, and tent are in relation to each other.

What's inside this worksheet

Where is the Ball

Three pictures of a red ball and a blue block. Students write Above, Below, or Next to from the word bank for each.

Park Map

A map of a park built from shapes. Students answer three questions: the shape of the Sandbox (square), the shape next to it (the circle pond), and whether the Tent is above or below the Pond.

How teachers use it

Act it out

Before the ball pictures, have students put a ball above, below, and next to a real block. Kindergartners who move the objects first rarely mix up the words.

Map vocabulary lesson

Introduce the idea that a map shows a place from above with this park map. Ask students what the blue circle stands for before they read the label.

Build a shape park

Give pairs paper shapes and let them lay out their own park on a desk. They then ask each other questions like question 3 on the sheet.

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