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Title - Continents
By - Ben Davis
Primary Subject - Social Studies
Secondary Subjects - Art
Grade Level - 2-3
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills Social Studies Standards:
113.6 2.(6) Geography.
The student understands the locations and characteristics of places and regions.
The student is expected to:
(A) identify major landforms and bodies of water, including continents and oceans, on maps and globes.
Learning Objectives:
The student will be able to:
- spell and identify the names of each continent
- color and cut each continent
- paste each continent into it's proper location on a map
- draw and fill a chart concerning geographic information
List of Materials Needed:
- Globe / Map
- Construction Paper (blue)
- Markers
- Pencils
- Continent Cutouts
- Paper
Pre-Activity Preparation:
A globe should be put out in plain sight for all students to see and compare their project to.
Transition:
Students should move to their individual desks, and some students should pass out cutouts and construction paper.
Establishing Set/Introduction:
"Do you know where we are? Which continent do we live on?"
Learning Experience/Procedure:
- Students should go to their desks, and make sure all supplies are present.
- The teacher should select three or four students to pass out construction paper and continent cutouts.
- Students should color all continents, as well as label them by name. The globe in the room, or a map may be used to identify the names of each continent.
- Once all continents are colored, cut out each one.
- Paste all cutouts on the construction paper, as if the paper was the ocean.
- Use the map/globe if needed to determine where each
continent belongs, and at what angle they should be placed.
- When all continents are in place, label the major oceans as well as the poles.
- Create a compass rose, with North, East, South, and West on it for reference.
- Once the map is completed, on a separate sheet of paper, have students create a T-chart with three columns. In the completed Continent Chart, the first column contains the name of each continent, the second describes what each one looks like, and the third provides a way to remember each continent based on it's appearance.
- This chart may be used as a study tool for a future quiz on the identity of each continent.
Closure:
- "Which continents are separate from the rest?
- Which ones are touching each other?
- Which continent is more south than any other?
- More north?"
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