Grade: Kindergarten Subject: Social Studies Unit: Basic Maps & Globe Lesson: 6 of 6 SAT: Information+Ideas ACT: Reading

🗺️ Unit Checkpoint

📋 Checkpoint Overview

Great job learning about maps! This checkpoint will help you show what you know about:

  • 🗺️ What maps are and how to read them
  • 🌍 The globe and our Earth
  • 📍 Map symbols and map keys
  • ⬆️ Directions (North, South, East, West)
  • 🏠 Location words for describing places

Answer all 10 questions below. Check your answers with the Answer Key at the bottom!

📝 Checkpoint Questions

Question 1: 🗺️ What is a map?

  1. A picture that shows places from above
  2. A type of book
  3. A kind of toy
  4. A drawing of animals

Question 2: 🌍 A globe is shaped like a:

  1. Square
  2. Triangle
  3. Ball (sphere)
  4. Rectangle

Question 3: 🔑 What does a map key (legend) tell us?

  1. How old the map is
  2. What the symbols on the map mean
  3. Who made the map
  4. How to fold the map

Question 4: 💧 On most maps, what does the color blue show?

  1. Mountains
  2. Roads
  3. Water (oceans, lakes, rivers)
  4. Forests

Question 5: ⬆️ On most maps, which direction is at the TOP?

  1. South
  2. East
  3. West
  4. North

Question 6: ➡️ If you are facing North, which direction is on your RIGHT?

  1. South
  2. West
  3. East
  4. North

Question 7: 📍 "The library is NEXT TO the school." What does "next to" mean?

  1. Very far away
  2. Right beside it
  3. On top of it
  4. Inside it

Question 8: 🏠 If the park is BETWEEN the house and the store, where is the park?

  1. Far from both
  2. On top of the house
  3. In the middle of the house and store
  4. Behind the store

Question 9: 🌳 On a picture map, trees are often drawn as:

  1. Blue squares
  2. Red triangles
  3. Green circles or tree shapes
  4. Yellow stars

Question 10: 🗺️ Why do people use maps?

  1. To find places and know where things are
  2. To cook food
  3. To play music
  4. To grow plants

✅ Answer Key

Check your answers below. How did you do?

  1. Question 1: A - A map is a picture that shows places from above.
  2. Question 2: C - A globe is shaped like a ball (sphere), just like Earth!
  3. Question 3: B - A map key tells us what the symbols on the map mean.
  4. Question 4: C - Blue on maps shows water like oceans, lakes, and rivers.
  5. Question 5: D - North is at the top of most maps.
  6. Question 6: C - If you face North, East is on your right.
  7. Question 7: B - "Next to" means right beside something.
  8. Question 8: C - "Between" means in the middle of two things.
  9. Question 9: C - Trees are often shown as green circles or tree shapes.
  10. Question 10: A - People use maps to find places and know where things are!

📊 How Did You Do?

  • 9-10 correct: 🌟 Amazing! You are a map expert!
  • 7-8 correct: 👍 Great job! You know a lot about maps!
  • 5-6 correct: 📚 Good effort! Review the lessons and try again.
  • 0-4 correct: 🔄 Keep practicing! Go back through the lessons.

🚀 What's Next?

  • 🎉 Celebrate your learning about maps!
  • 📚 Review any questions you got wrong
  • 🗺️ Keep practicing with real maps at home and school
  • ➡️ Move on to the next Social Studies unit!