Year 2 Maps to explore identity, journeys, and imagination. worksheet

“Maps that show my places” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 art unit “Maps to explore identity, journeys, and imagination.”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 22 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 28 to 32 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Maps that show my places

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Art & design · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can make a map that uses symbols and feelings to show my special places.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the colours that are primary colours.
redorangeyellowgreenbluepurple
2.
Circle the tone that sits in the middle of this ladder.
whitelight greymid greydark greyblack
3.
Mixing blue and yellow makes which colour? Circle one.
greenpurpleorangebrown

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola is making a map of places she loves. Each place gets a small symbol, and a line joins them.

Watch me

Ola draws a tree for the park, a pond for the lake, a house for home.

She spreads the symbols across the page, not in a tidy row.

She joins them with a dotted line to show her journey.

Now you

1.
Ola wants to show the park on her map. Which symbol does she draw? Circle one.
treefarmschoolshop
2.
Draw a symbol for a place you love on your own map. Write its name by it.

C Your turn6 min

Look at each map. Then circle the answer.

1.
Ola draws this symbol on her map for her home. What is it?
housetreepond
2.
Kit draws a map of a dragon's island from a story. Is the island real or made up?
realmade up
3.
Mia draws a smiley sun by the park on her map. What does the sun show?
how she feels about the parkthe way to the shops
4.
Can a map show a place you remember, like a beach from a holiday?
YesNo

Say it out loud: What can a map show as well as real places? Tell your grown-up.

D Spot the mistake3 min

A simple map drawn on paper on a kitchen table, with a pond, a tree and dotted footprints

Kit says: “Maps must show real roads and houses exactly.”

1.
Write one reason Kit is wrong.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Draw a symbol that shows how a place makes you feel. Say which place it is and why.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Maps that show my places · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. red, yellow, blue If they circle green, remind them that red, yellow and blue cannot be made by mixing other colours. Point to the three.

2. mid grey

3. green

B

1. tree If they circle farm, school or shop, point to the first line of Watch me. Ask what Ola drew for the park.

2. Look for: A small drawn symbol and a name for a place the child loves, such as a park, a beach or a garden. If they draw a shape with no name, ask which place it stands for. Then ask them to write that place beside it.

C

1. house If your child circles tree or pond, point to the symbol. Ask what Ola lives in.

2. made up If your child circles real, ask: have you ever seen a dragon? Maps can show made-up places too.

3. how she feels about the park If your child circles the way to the shops, ask how a smiley sun makes them feel.

4. Yes

D

1. Look for: Says a map can show made-up places, feelings or memories, so the claim is false. If they only say that Kit is wrong, ask what else a map can show. Let them use an example, like a feeling about a park.

E

1. Look for: A symbol that shows a feeling about a named place, with a reason.

Words to use

Say“What does this symbol stand for? Could a map show a feeling as well as a place?”

Instead of“Your map needs to look like a real map, so draw the roads.”

After the sheet

Draw a map of your room or garden with three special spots. Use one small symbol for each, then join them with a dotted line.

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

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

Places in Layers(with a plan)
Map painting with layers(with a plan)
Showing movement in art(with a plan)
Layers and Changing Plans(with a plan)

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