Bordering States Map Skills Worksheet

What is on the page

There are four parts to Bordering States Map Skills Worksheet, 15 exercises between them. Matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice and short-answer work, in that order, so a student who has understood the material has to show it in more than one form before the page is finished.

Part A Match each state to one of its bordering neighbors sets five items against five lettered options, one lettered option per item, which means the last pair can be reached by elimination. Part B Fill in the blank to complete each statement gives five sentences with a blank each and no word bank, so the wording has to come from the student. Part C Circle the best answer for each question asks four multiple-choice questions with four printed options each. Part D Answer in your own words is one short-answer questions with two ruled lines between them, which is the part of the sheet that takes the longest.

Two ruled lines are printed for written answers on Bordering States Map Skills Worksheet, which decides how long it takes more than the question count does. The answer key prints on its own page at the end, so the sheet can be handed out without it.

What it asks of the student

Bordering States Map Skills Worksheet puts about 238 words of reading in front of the student — the fact box, the directions, every question, and every printed option. That is the number worth checking against a class before it goes out, because a sheet that is pitched right on the history and wrong on the reading fails for the same child either way. The longest single prompt on it runs to 17 words.

Writing runs the other way on Bordering States Map Skills Worksheet: two ruled lines for one of the 15 exercises, and the full answer key comes to 44 words. Everything else is answered in a blank, in a box, or on the map itself, which is why the sheet takes a lesson rather than a homework slot.

Where this one sits

Bordering States Map Skills Worksheet is one of 61 US States & Capitals sheets on this site and one of 59 written for grade 4. It is the only one on bordering states, so nothing else here repeats it.

The closest things to it are Maine Map Activity (grade 4) and Maryland Map Activity (grade 4). If Bordering States Map Skills Worksheet lands well, those are the ones to reach for next; if it lands badly, the application sheets a grade either side are usually the adjustment rather than a different topic altogether.