Year 2 What is it like to live in Tanzania? worksheet

“Finding Africa on the Map” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 geography unit “What is it like to live in Tanzania?”, 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 31 to 36 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Finding Africa on the Map

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

Today I can tell where Africa is and why it is not one country.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which letter stands for north? Circle one.
NESW
2.
Is the house near the top or the bottom of the map? Circle one.
topbottom
3.
Which letter stands for west? Circle one.
NESW

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola lives in the UK. Her cousin lives in Tanzania. Which way is Africa from the UK?

A world map with north at the top, with Europe and Africa in different colours

Watch me

The UK is in Europe.

On a world map with north at the top, Africa is just below Europe.

On a map, below means south.

So Africa is south of the UK.

Now you

1.
On a world map, Europe is just above Africa. Which direction is Europe from Africa? Circle your answer.
northsoutheastwest

C Your turn7 min

Read each question. Then circle or write your answer.

1.
The UK is part of which continent? Circle one.
AntarcticaAfricaEurope
2.
Ola's cousin lives in Tanzania. Which continent is Tanzania in? Circle one.
EuropeAfricaAsia
3.
On a map with north at the top, Tanzania is on the right side of Africa. Which part of Africa is it in? Circle your answer.
Western AfricaNorthern AfricaEastern Africa
4.
Write each word in the right column.
AfricaTanzaniaEuropeUnited Kingdom
Continent Country

Say it out loud: Say Europe, Africa and Tanzania out loud. Which one is a country? How do you know?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A dry desert with pale sand and no people

A green forest with tall trees and no people

Sam says: “Africa is a country, so it has one kind of weather everywhere.”

1.
Write one reason why Sam is wrong.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Ola flies from the UK to see her cousin in Tanzania. Write one sentence with compass words to say which way she flies.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Finding Africa on the Map · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. N If they chose S, they may have mixed up north and south. Turn the picture so the top points north.

2. top If they said bottom, they may be reading from the wrong edge. Start with the letters along the bottom and the numbers up the side.

3. W If they chose E, they have swapped east and west. Face north and point your right arm towards east.

B

1. north

C

1. Europe

2. Africa If they picked Europe, ask where Ola's cousin lives. Tanzania is a country in Africa.

3. Eastern Africa If they chose Western Africa, they may have mixed up west and east. Face north and point your right arm east.

4. Country: Tanzania, United Kingdom · Continent: Africa, Europe If Africa went in the country column, ask whether Africa holds many countries inside it. Then check again.

D

1. Look for: Africa is a continent with many countries and different climates, not one country. If they only say Sam is wrong, ask them to name two different places in Africa, one hot and dry and one green.

E

1. Look for: A sentence saying Ola flies south, or south and a little east, to reach Tanzania.

Words to use

Say“Show me where the UK is on a globe. Now show me where Africa is. Is Africa one country or many?”

Instead of“Africa is just one country, isn't it?”

After the sheet

Find Africa on a world map or globe at home. Trace a route from the UK with your finger and say the compass direction as you go.

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:

Tanzania's Many Landscapes(with a plan)
Physical and human features(with a plan)
Alike and different places(with a plan)
Jobs in Arusha(with a plan)
Life near Arusha(with a plan)

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