City-Time Zone Match

This geography and reasoning worksheet supports students in Grades 5, 6, and 7 as they learn how global time zones work using real-world city examples. Students practice matching major cities-such as New York, London, Tokyo, and Sydney-to their correct UTC offsets while strengthening map-based reasoning, time interpretation, and analytical thinking. A reflection extension invites learners to explain why Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) serves as the global reference point for measuring time.

Learning Goals

• Global Time Zones (Grades 5-7) – Identify and match major cities with their correct UTC offsets
• Time Difference Reasoning – Interpret how time changes across different regions of the world
• Geographic Awareness – Connect city locations to longitudinal position and global coordinates
• Analytical Writing – Explain the purpose and importance of UTC as a standardized time system

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with geography, math, and social studies standards
• Clear Matching Format – Reinforces understanding through structured comparison
• Extension Reasoning Prompt – Encourages deeper thinking about standardization and globalization
• Flexible Use – Ideal for geography units, social studies lessons, enrichment, or review activities

This global time zone worksheet helps students build practical understanding of how time is organized around the world. By matching cities to UTC offsets and reflecting on standardized time, learners gain insight into international communication, travel, and cooperation. It’s a no-prep resource for both classroom and homeschool settings that supports geographic literacy, analytical thinking, and real-world problem solving.

This worksheet is part of our Time Zones and Their Basis collection.