Skip to content
LessonPrint

Songs About the American Land is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on what patriotic songs say about the land, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Geo.6.K-2. It prints 6 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

Set 8 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next set

One paper per student

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425

Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.

Songs About the American Land

D2.Geo.6.K-2

NameDate

Read the song and answer. Then circle the best answer.

1.Read the song, then answer the questions.

America the Beautiful

Words by Katharine Lee Bates. She first wrote them after seeing the view from Pikes Peak, Colorado, in 1893, and changed some words later. O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

  1. 1. What kind of skies does the song name?
  2. 2. What is above the fruited plain?
  3. 3. Where was Katharine Lee Bates when she saw the view?
  4. 4. Amber waves of grain are fields of what?
2.A state can have its own motto too. A motto is…
  • A.a type of coin
  • B.a kind of map
  • C.a short saying about what people believe
3.What is the national anthem of the United States?
  • A.Yankee Doodle
  • B.America the Beautiful
  • C.The Star-Spangled Banner
4.Where can you see the words In God We Trust?
  • A.On stop signs
  • B.On US coins and paper money
  • C.On mailboxes
5.Who wrote the words of the national anthem?
  • A.Samuel Francis Smith
  • B.Francis Scott Key
  • C.Katharine Lee Bates
6.What is the national motto of the United States?
  • A.Land of the free
  • B.In God We Trust
  • C.Sweet land of liberty

LessonPrint · D2.Geo.6.K-2 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Songs About the American Land

Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Spacious skies. 2. Purple mountain majesties. 3. On Pikes Peak, Colorado. 4. Grain blowing in the wind.
  2. 2.a short saying about what people believe
  3. 3.The Star-Spangled Banner
  4. 4.On US coins and paper money
  5. 5.Francis Scott Key
  6. 6.In God We Trust

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Geo.6.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.