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Above the Highstone Trail

Kindergarten students use a mountain trail map described in words to identify views from above and locate places.

KindergartenSocial StudiesInteractive · Printable

Aligned toGEO.K.2

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  • 1 C3 Framework standard
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  • 10 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Kindergarten
Subject
Social Studies
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify a map as a drawing of a place seen from above.
  • Students use a described map to find where places are located.
  • Students distinguish a map view from a side-view picture.

How to use

Read the passage aloud and act out looking straight down. Help students use the map clues before they complete the questions and drawing.

Curriculum

C3 Framework standard covered

GEO.K.2

Understand that a map is a drawing of a place seen from above, such as a classroom, bedroom or playground.

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Above the Highstone Trail

Use a mountain trail map to see a place from above.

Listen to the trail map

Listen as your teacher reads the passage. Then use the map details to answer the questions.

A Card for Lookout Loop

Highstone is a small town in the mountains. One morning, Ms. Rowan takes her class to Lookout Loop. She makes a map card of the trail. The trail is a line from the bottom to the top. A picnic shelter is left of the trail. A stream is right of it. A bridge crosses the stream near the middle. A lookout is at the top. Ms. Rowan made the card by imagining she was above the loop, looking straight down.

1.
Why would the map card help a new visitor?
  • A. It tells what each visitor is saying.
  • B. It shows where the trail and places are.
  • C. It tells how tall the mountain is.
  • D. It shows each visitor's face.
2.
How did Ms. Rowan think about Lookout Loop when she made the card?
  • A. She imagined standing beside the shelter.
  • B. She imagined riding under the bridge.
  • C. She imagined looking up at the mountain.
  • D. She imagined looking straight down from above.
3.
Word bank: stream · shelter · trail

The bridge crosses the  .

4.
Circle the two details that are on Ms. Rowan's map card.

The shelter is left of the trail.A child tells a funny story.The bridge is near the middle.A bird sings a song.

5.
A child walks up the trail from the bottom. Which place will the child reach near the middle?
  • A. The bridge
  • B. The picnic shelter
  • C. The lookout
  • D. The top of the mountain

Use a map from above

Think about what a map from above can show. Circle, choose, and explain.

6.
Which drawing would be a map from above?
  • A. A side picture of the shelter with the mountain behind it.
  • B. A drawing of a child walking along the trail.
  • C. A top-down drawing showing the trail, shelter, stream, and bridge.
  • D. A close-up picture of the bridge rails.
7.
Lina wants her cousin to find the reading rug and the fish tank in her classroom. What would help most?
  • A. Draw the classroom from the side with the rug in front.
  • B. Tell a story about reading on the rug.
  • C. Draw a map of the classroom from above.
  • D. Draw a close-up picture of the fish tank.
8.
Circle the two things a visitor could learn from the Lookout Loop map.

Where the bridge is.What the stream sounds like.Where the shelter is.What a hiker's face looks like.

9.
How do you know Ms. Rowan's card is a map from above? Tell one detail from the passage.
10.
Draw a map of a small mountain picnic place from above. Draw a trail, a picnic shelter, and a stream. Put the shelter on one side of the trail and the stream on the other side.

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