Map Labelling Worksheet (Free Printable PDF)
An invented island on a lettered grid, with numbered markers to identify and a key table where each one gets a name and a grid reference.
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The map is an imaginary island rather than a real country, which means it tests map skills instead of memory and can be used in any country's classroom. It is drawn with a coastline, a lake, a river running to the sea, a range of hills, a settlement and a road, all as plain shapes, on a grid lettered A to H across and numbered down the side so every feature has a grid reference.
Numbered markers sit next to the features, eight or twelve of them depending on the option. Underneath, a key table lists those numbers with a column for what each one is and a column for its grid square. The teacher decides what the numbers mean, so the same sheet can be a lesson on physical features one week and on grid references or compass directions the next.
The frame carries a north arrow and a scale bar of one grid square, which gives a way to ask how far it is from the town to the coast or which direction the river flows. Every cell of the key table is a form field, so the sheet works on a tablet as well as on paper, and it fills the page on both US Letter and A4.
