Grade 6 Geography
How to read a map and use its scale, what mountains, plateaus and plains actually are, and where rain comes from and where a river goes.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Maps and Directions
- Directions and the compassLesson
Use the four main directions and the four that lie between them to say where one place is from another, and read the direction arrow on a map.
- Reading a mapLesson
Find the four things nearly every map carries — its title, its direction arrow, its key and its scale — and use the key to say what a symbol or a color on the map stands for.
- Map scale and distanceLesson
Use a map's scale to turn a length measured on the map into the real distance on the ground, and turn a real distance back into a length on the map.
The Land and Its Water
- Mountains, plateaus and plainsLesson
Tell a mountain, a plateau and a plain apart by the shape and height of the land, and say why people live and farm where they do.
- The water cycleLesson
Name the four stages of the water cycle, put them in order, and explain where rain comes from and why the earth never runs out of water.
- A river from source to seaLesson
Follow a river from its source to its mouth and name the parts of the journey — tributary, confluence, valley, delta and basin — and say what the river does to the land along the way.