Position on the Earth's Surface Look at a map or globe. If you know these numbers and how to use them, you can find any place in the world and give its absolute location .
Location can describe how one place relates to another.
For example, the Panama Canal was cut across an extremely narrow strip of land in Central America. It provides a shipping lane between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, eliminating the need for long, dangerous journeys around South America. To help young children learn location, make sure they know the name of their town and their street address, and that they can describe the building and neighborhood in which they live. Then, when you talk about other places, they have something of their own with which to compare. Children need to understand positional words.