Kindergarten · Geography
What a Kindergarten student learns in Geography
Kindergarten geography builds foundational spatial awareness as students explore their immediate world—from self and classroom to community and Earth—using positional language, simple maps and globes, and basic physical and human features of places.
The skills for the year
- 1Use positional words (near/far, left/right, above/below, in front/behind, inside/outside) to describe locations of people and objects
- 2Follow and give simple oral directions using positional words to locate places in the classroom or school
- 3Identify and describe familiar places (home, classroom, school, neighborhood landmarks)
- 4Distinguish between a map and a globe and explain that both represent real places
- 5Identify land and water on maps and globes
- 6Recognize that Earth is round and a globe is a model of Earth
- 7Create simple maps of the classroom, bedroom, or playground using drawings and basic symbols
- 8Use a simple map key/legend and recognize common symbols (road, building, water, tree)
- 9Begin using cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) with a simple compass rose
- 10Identify basic physical features in pictures and models (mountains, hills, rivers, lakes, oceans)
- 11Identify human-made features (houses, schools, roads, bridges, parks)
- 12State personal address information (street, city/town, state)
- 13Locate own community, home state, and the United States on simple maps
- 14Describe how weather and seasons affect clothing, activities, and shelter
- 15Compare simple characteristics of different places people live (city, farm, beach)
- 16Explain basic ways people adapt to their environment (clothing for weather, buildings for shelter)
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