Year 2 Hot places: where are they and what are they like? worksheet

“Hot places on a chart” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 geography unit “Hot places: where are they and what are they like?”, for children aged 6 to 7, 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 21 to 24 of the year, 4 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Hot places on a chart

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Geography · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can compare temperatures and explain why the Equator is hot.

A Look back3 min

Use the compass to answer.

1.
The top of this compass is north. Which way points to the right? Circle it.
northsoutheastwest
2.
Which way is at the bottom of this compass? Circle it.
northsoutheastwest
3.
You face north. Which way is on your left hand? Circle it.
northsoutheastwest

B Watch me, then you4 min

This chart shows the hottest day in three made-up towns. Read the tallest bar to find the hottest town.

A globe on a wooden stand next to a bright classroom window

Watch me

Town A is 25 degrees. Town C is 20 degrees.

Town B is 35 degrees, the tallest bar.

So Town B is the hottest town.

Now you

1.
Look at the chart. Which town is the hottest? Write it.

C Your turn7 min

Each chart shows made-up towns. The Sun shines straight down on the Equator, so it gets the most heat. Read the bars, then answer.

1.
Look at the chart. Which town is hotter? Write its name.
2.
Look at the chart. Going from the Equator town to the Pole town, does it get hotter or colder?
3.
Why is the Equator town the hottest town on the chart?
4.
One of these towns is on the Equator. The other is near a Pole. Which town is on the Equator? Write it.

Say it out loud: Which town was hottest on each chart? Where on Earth do you find the hottest places?

D Spot the mistake3 min

The Equator gets lots of rain, so rainforests grow there. Deserts get very little rain.

Sand dunes under a bright sky in a hot desert with no people

Sam says: “Hot deserts are mostly found on the Equator.”

1.
Sam is wrong. Why are most hot deserts not on the Equator?

E Think deeper4 min

1.
The Tropic of Cancer is a line a little way north of the Equator. Is it hot or cold there? Explain how you know.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Hot places on a chart · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. east

2. south

3. west

B

1. Look for: Coast town your child may have picked the shortest bar. The tallest bar shows the hottest town.

C

1. Look for: Equator town your child may have picked the shorter bar. The taller bar shows the hotter town.

2. Look for: Says it gets colder further from the Equator. your child may have read the chart from the wrong end. Start at the Equator town and follow the bars.

3. Look for: Says the Sun shines straight down or strongest on the Equator. your child may have described the bars instead. Read the sentence about the Sun together.

4. Look for: Town Y, because it is the hotter town with the taller bar. your child may have picked the colder town. Places on the Equator get the most heat, so look for the taller bar.

D

1. Look for: Says the Equator is too rainy for a desert, or that rainforests grow there instead. your child may think the Equator is the hottest and driest place. Ask: is the Equator the place with rainforests or deserts?

E

1. Look for: Says hot, because it is near the Equator.

Words to use

Say“Which bar is the hottest, and how do you know? Why does the Equator get more heat than the Poles?”

Instead of“Hot deserts must be on the Equator, because that is the hottest place.”

After the sheet

Use a torch and a ball. Shine it straight down, then at a slant. The straight-down circle is smaller and brighter. That is like the Sun at the Equator.

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

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

Hot, wet rainforest climate(with a plan)
Hot desert places(with a plan)
Packing for hot places(with a plan)

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