Continents Lesson Plans

21. Continent Adventure
...ter friendly version Printer Continent Adventure Friendly Version Materials Name of Activity: Product Continent Suggestions Adventure from: World Learning Academic content: Social Studies Wall? $15.99 Purpose of Activity: The purpose of the activity is to review or learn information regarding the 7 continents on our planet. It is Browse the S&S also a fun movement and fitness activity. selection of spot markers Prerequisites: Review the continents and pertinent facts about the continents for appropriate grade levels. Review moving safely in 30" Economy general space and a variety of different locomotor s...

22. Map Quest
...locations, places, and regions. Other Content Standards: Brief Summary of Unit: The purpose of this unit is to involve students in map skills that they will use in every day situations. The students will be able to create/read a map using a key, legends, and symbols. They will identify the equator, continents, oceans, Washington, D.C., South Dakota, major mountain ranges, rivers, and the Great Lakes. They will also be able to identify the four directions on a compass rose. Students will Understand: Students will understand map skills and be able to identify continents, directions, and features on a map o...

23. Plate Movements and Climate Change
...State University University Park, PA 16802 Level: Grades 7 and above Estimated Time Required: 50 minutes Anticipated Learning Outcomes Students will gain an understanding of how the movements of the Earth's plates over the past 180 million years (abbreviated My) may have affected the climate of the continents. Students will use maps of ancient continental positions and, with some basic concepts about climate zones, hypothesize what climate changes may have occurred due to plate movements. Background Climate is simply weather "averaged" over a time period of one year or more. In general terms, the climate...

24. Mapping Activities
...te down whatever knowledge they have about the location of the Caribbean island nations. 2. Turn these in to the teacher to be put into students' files. 3. Teacher hands out world map with no labels for second mapping activity. 4. Students individually will label what they know on the map including continents, oceans, seas, and countries. 5. Hand these second maps in to be put into students' files. 6. Next, the class will be divided into groups of four. 7. Each group will be given a larger world map to label more specifically than the last map. 8. Students will engage in group effort to label the map wit...

25. Making Globes
...Description: The students have studied the five themes of geography. They have made maps of our town and have done several activites with the globe. Goal: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the students to the world map and globes. Instructional Objective: To understand the placement of the continents on the globe. Performance Objectives: 1. The student will make a paper-mache round figure. 2. The students will transform the paper-mache figure into a replica of a globe. Materials: Newspaper - lots of it Balloons - enough for each member of your class 10 lbs. of flour (this will do 31 globes) Pail...

26. Teaching Today | Lesson Plans | Continents and Critters
...Term Term description McGraw-Hill Companies HOME HOME LESSON PLANS LESSON PLANS GLOSSARY GLOSSARY HOW-TO ARTICLES HOW-TO ARTICLES TEACHING TIPS TEACHING TIPS GLENCOE GLENCOE MHSCHOOL MHSCHOOL DOWNLOADS DOWNLOADS VIDEOS VIDEOS Search: Search Lesson Plan Lesson Plans > Social Studies > Grades 3 - 5 > Continents and Critters Print this page Save this page E-mail this page Kinesthetic Learner Kinesthetic Learner Visual Learner Visual Learner Auditory Learner Auditory Learner Technology Integration Technology Integration Continents and Critters Develop map reading skills and library research skills Grade Leve...

27. Garb and Grub Across the Globe
...e 1 June 19, 2000 Purpose: In my first grade class, we primarily focus on how each student relates to the world around them: town, island, state, and country. We look at location and where our islands are compared to our country and the continent of North America. This leads into learning all seven continents and four oceans. The students also find out where their ancestors came from and locate those countries on the map. At this point, I felt it was important to look at the differences and similarities of each continent to gain a deeper understanding and connection. This would also prepare them for thei...

28. World Geography
...graphy (continent) Geography, level: Senior Posted Thu Jun 23 09:21:34 PDT 2005 by Keisha Thomas ( thomaske@mail.okaloosa.k12.fl.us). Niceville High School, Niceville, USA Materials Required: Web access, microsoft word, w/pen and paper Activity Time: 4 (30 minute sessions) Concepts Taught: Study of continents and maps Lesson Plan June 23, 2005 World Geography (continents) Objective: To study continents, culture, leadership, maps, and there relationship. Standards: Listed on Filamentality on the web Rubric: Listed on Filamentality on the web Procedure: 1. From the seven continents choose two (exclude the...

29. Katherine Engel, Amphi Middle School
...lls Student should be able to open Internet sites. Materials · computers with Internet access and a word processor; · http://www.amphi.com/~psteffen · computer instructions (Attachment 1). Procedures Students follow instructions take 3 Social Studies tests in Funbrain Quizlab: 1. Wants and Needs 2. Continents 3. Continents and Oceans Then they go to recommended sites and find 3 new facts about globes and facts, as well as latitude and longitude of Tucson, and save that information in a Word processor on a disk. Assessment Funbrain quizzes are assessed and analyzed automatically. The other facts of geog...

30. Lesson Plan on Making a World History Timeline
...ed States (World). Read graphs, charts, tables, and analyze political cartoons. I. Content: Skill- I want my students to be able to arrange historical events in chronological order using timelines. II. Prerequisites: Students need basic computer, research, and graphing skills, and knowledge of what continents are and the names of them. III. Instructional Objective: Given posterboard, markers, and a list of historic events the student will construct an accurate timeline placing at least five events from the continent his/her group studied (one event for each of the following time periods; B.C., 1 A.D to 5...