Geography Essential Activities for Grade 2

Perfect for fall, let’s go straight to Transylvania to learn cardinal directions with Count Dracula! This cardinal directions printable worksheet will enchant your child as they use the compass rose to learn how to tell the difference between north, south, east, and west!  This worksheet is designed to:  • Keep your learner engaged with a fun vampire theme • Introduce the compass rose and how to read it • Offer valuable practice with cardinal directions Cardinal directions are important for kids to learn as they discover the big world around them! Motivate them with this spookily fun vampire worksheet!

Every little child loves coloring things. You might find that your kids love coloring so much that they use every surface to practice; including your walls and furniture! Save yourself the stress of repainting surfaces every so often by getting your kids some coloring sheets. Luckily for you, this worksheet has a fun coloring activity that would engage your child’s hands and mind. Ask them to color the globe picture in the printout, and help them pick out the appropriate colors.

Using cardinal (North, South, East and West) and Intercardinal Directions (Northeast/Northwest, Southeast/Southwest) are important social studies and geography concepts for young students to learn. This colorful PDF offers them pictures of compasses that they'll use to decide which direction the needle is pointing. It's a real-world skill that they don't often get to practice in a digital age, but an important one for common curriculum as well as independent living skills.

We live in an age where children type directions into an electronic device, but that means that they don't get much real-world experience with reading maps and using map keys. This gorgeous PDF worksheet lets students see a map of the continent of Africa, and allows them to associate map symbols in a key with the destinations on the map. They'll use the key to help them answer the directional questions and feel like they're on an actual safari!

If your kids are heavily interested in geography and studying the different planes, then they might be more enthusiastic about this worksheet. In the free printout, there is the picture of a map. Ask your child to look at the map carefully. Point out and read the different landmarks aloud to them, and make sure that they take note of the locations. Then, read the questions at the bottom of the page to them. Ask them to use the map to answer the questions, and check the correct answers.

When it comes to map-reading today, children often don't have much experience because we live in a digital age of GPS directions. But map-reading skills are essential not just for global connectivity, but for critical reasoning, critical thinking and problem-solving skill-building as well. This free worksheet gives children reinforcing practice learning about what they'll find on a map, and the symbols that are used to represent them.

Let’s take to the open sea, with this intriguing oceans of the world worksheet! Your child will simply match the colorful shapes to the correct sea on the illustration to label each ocean with the correct name. Afterwards, discuss with your child which ocean is the closest to your home!