Indiana Social Studies 1.G.2

Social Studies1st GradeGeography

The Standard

Identify and describe continents, hemispheres, oceans, cities, and roads on maps and globes.

2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find continents and oceans on a map and globe. They point to the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. On a street map, they find a city and a road and tell how the road connects places.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can point to a named continent, ocean, hemisphere, city, and road on the right map. They can explain that the Equator separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and that roads connect places.
Common Misconceptions: Students may mistake a city dot for a road or think the Equator is a road. They may confuse a continent with a hemisphere because both cover large areas of a globe.
How to Assess It: Give students a labeled world map and a street map. Ask them to circle a continent, underline an ocean, shade the Northern Hemisphere, and mark a city and a road leading to it.

Lesson moves

Wrap yarn around a globe at the Equator, then place sticky notes on a continent, an ocean, and each hemisphere.
Point to Africa on a globe and ask, 'How can this continent be in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?'
Call out 'Pacific Ocean,' 'Africa,' 'Oak Street,' and 'Lima' while students cover the matching ocean, continent, road, or city squares on bingo cards.
Use a local map to find the nearest city and trace a road from your school toward it.

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