Longitude Worksheet

Teaching the concept of longitude is easier when you use a longitude worksheet. For some students the abstract concept of longitude is difficult to understand. Even for those who do grasp the concept, worksheets help to reinforce it. Taught to different degrees at various grade levels, understanding and using longitude is an important skill.

Worksheets help to reinforce the concept

There are many worksheets that assist in teaching the concept of longitude available online that you can download. Some of the websites offer the worksheets for free, while others require a small fee for membership. The following websites provide worksheets for students of various ages and grade levels.

• Leland High School of San Jose, California, provides a five page worksheet packet on longitude and latitude skills. The worksheet packet is provided in PDF format.
• Rick Riordon provides a latitude and longitude practice sheet focusing on coordinates.
• E Missions printable worksheet is provided in PDF format.
• The Center for Distance Learning and Innovation provides three free worksheets that cover both latitude and longitude in a printable PDF format.
• The Eighth Floor provides a unit called The Geography of Baseball which includes a latitude and longitude worksheet of the cities of major league baseball teams. An answer key is also provided.
• Education provides a downloadable worksheet focusing on finding the coordinates of cities.
• The Florida Geographic Alliance provides a free longitude and latitude worksheet with a focus on South America. This worksheet is in PDF format.
• The Newberry Library offers a worksheet on longitude and time.
• Jacksonville State University provides a free thirty question longitude and latitude review worksheet. The answers are also provided.
• The Agency for Instructional Technology provides a unit study on geography that includes several worksheets on latitude and longitude. This website is in PDF format.
• ESL Printables provides a downloadable practice quiz that doubles as a worksheet. Students need a latitude and longitude map to complete this worksheet.
• Mystery Class includes a worksheet on longitude to use with the printable equinox sunrise table.
• The Pride of Baltimore provides a worksheet on longitude with a focus on Asia.
• Arizona Geographic Alliance provides a free worksheet on using latitude, longitude and geometry coordinates.This worksheet is provided in PDF format.
• Geography All the Way provides a longitude worksheet to use with Google Earth.
• School Webs offers a free worksheet on using latitude and longitude to locate world capitals. This worksheet is provided in DOC format.
• Keith Walcock provides a latitude and longitude worksheet in DOC format.
• Michigan State University provides an advanced longitude worksheet that focuses on astronomy. This worksheet is in PDF format.
• Mr. Barnes of Half Moon Bay High School in California, provides several worksheets focusing on the coordinates of longitude and latitude stressing map and globe reading skills.

Teacher Vision offers several worksheets on longitude. This website offers a free seven day trial membership that allows you to print three free items. The membership fee is $39.95 per year.

Lesson Planet provides several worksheets on longitude skills. The website offers a free ten-day trial membership before you must join.

• Enchanted Learning offers several geography worksheets on longitude skills that have varying degrees of difficulty. Answers are also provided on the Enchanted Learning website. There is a $20.00 yearly membership fee to join this website. Once the yearly fee is paid, members have access to all of the Enchanted Learning website worksheets in printer friendly format.
• My Schoolhouse is a fee based website that provides longitude and latitude worksheets for various age levels. They provide one online worksheet as a trial of their services. Fill in the answers online and My Schoolhouse scores it for you. Membership fees are $19.95 for home and homeschool membership.

Many public and college libraries are excellent resources for locating worksheets of all subject areas, including longitude worksheets. Bookstores and teaching supply centers generally have workbooks that include worksheets on longitude.

Regardless of the method or curriculum you choose when homeschooling your family, using supplemental worksheets when needed reinforces basic concepts.

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