Year 1 Continents and oceans: what can we find out about the world? worksheet

“Earth View” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 geography unit “Continents and oceans: what can we find out about the world?”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 13 to 18 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Earth View

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Geography · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can tell land and ocean apart on a globe or a satellite picture.

A Look back3 min

1.
Some letters are missing from this compass. Circle the letter at the top.
NSEW
2.
Look at the map. Which way is the tree from the house? Circle one.
northsoutheastwest
3.
The robot needs to reach the star. Which way must it go? Circle one.
rightleftupdown

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola has a globe. Blue shows ocean and green shows land. Look at her key, then answer the question.

A round globe on a wooden stand, mostly blue with some green patches

Watch me

Blue shows water, so blue areas are ocean.

Green shows land, so green areas are land.

Most of Ola's globe is blue, so most of it is ocean.

Now you

1.
Ola's globe has a green patch. Is the green patch ocean or land? Circle one.
oceanland

C Your turn6 min

Blue is ocean, and green or brown is land. Answer each question.

A satellite view of Earth with blue ocean, green and brown land and white clouds

1.
A satellite picture shows a big blue area. Is it ocean or land? Circle one.
oceanland
2.
A satellite picture shows a green patch. Is it ocean or land? Circle one.
oceanland
3.
Sort these patches. Write each one in the right column.
blue patchgreen patchbig blue seabrown patch
Shows water Shows land
4.
A globe has a blue area and a green area. Where could a ship sail? Circle one.
the blue areathe green area

Say it out loud: What changed from one question to the next? How did the colours tell you the answer?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Earth seen from space, mostly blue ocean with some green land

Kit says: “Earth is mostly green, because the land looks big on the map.”

1.
Is Kit right? Write why in your own words.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Imagine you colour a ball to look like Earth. Why should most of it be blue? Tell your grown-up.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Earth View · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. N your child may have picked a letter that is not at the top. Point to the top box and say north is at the top.

2. north your child may have read the map from the bottom up the wrong way. Up the page is north. Ask which way the top of the map points.

3. right your child may have picked up or down. Ask: is the star in the same row as the robot?

B

1. land your child may have chosen ocean because the globe looks mostly blue. Ask: what colour is the patch? Green shows land.

C

1. ocean your child may have said land because the blue area is big. Ask: what does blue show? Blue shows water.

2. land

3. Shows land: green patch, brown patch · Shows water: blue patch, big blue sea

4. the blue area your child may have picked the green area. Ask: what does blue show? Ships sail on water.

D

1. Look for: Says Kit is wrong and gives a reason such as oceans cover almost three quarters of Earth, so more blue than green. your child may think the land looks big on a flat map. Ask: what colour covers most of the globe?

E

1. Look for: Explains that most of Earth is ocean and blue shows water, so most of the ball is blue.

Words to use

Say“Which colour covers most of Earth? How do you know?”

Instead of“Tell them the answer is blue and green is land.”

After the sheet

Look at a ball at home. Colour it with a felt pen: blue for ocean, green for land, with much more blue than green. Explain your choice.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Continents and Flat Maps(with a plan)
Our Five Oceans(with a plan)
Rivers from start to end(with a plan)
Mountains and landmarks(with a plan)
The UK's Place in the World(with a plan)

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