Landmark Locator

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen reading comprehension, cultural knowledge, and geographic reasoning by identifying famous Greek landmarks using descriptive clues. Students read carefully crafted descriptions and match them to well-known sites such as the Acropolis, Meteora, Santorini’s caldera, and Knossos, reinforcing understanding of Greece’s history, geography, and cultural heritage.

Learning Goals

• World Landmarks & Heritage Sites (Grades 4-6) – Identify major Greek landmarks and understand their historical and cultural importance
• Ancient Civilizations – Connect landmarks to ancient Greek history and early civilizations
• Reading for Detail – Analyze descriptive clues to determine the correct landmark
• Geographic & Cultural Awareness – Recognize how location, landscape, and history shape famous sites

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed to align with upper elementary social studies and ELA standards
• Clue-Based Identification – Encourages reasoning and close reading rather than memorization
• Flexible Classroom Use – Works well for independent practice, review, assessment, centers, or enrichment
• Low-Prep Format – Ready-to-print worksheet with clear directions and student-friendly layout

This Landmark Locator worksheet helps students build confidence identifying important Greek landmarks while strengthening critical thinking and reading skills. By connecting descriptive clues to real-world locations, learners deepen their understanding of Greek history, geography, and cultural heritage. It’s a practical, no-prep resource for both classroom instruction and homeschool learning.

This worksheet is part of our Greece Worksheets collection.