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Identifying Continents and Oceans
Students locate and identify the four major oceans and the seven continents on a world map. They use an unlabeled world map and compass rose to describe relative locations of the continents and oceans.
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Identifying and locating the continents and oceans of the world.
Third graders physically construct a balloon replica of the world globe by coloring, correctly labeling, and cutting out the seven continent shapes from the worksheet, gluing them onto their correct locations on an inflated blue balloon....
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Tear the Continents
Students tear paper into representative continent shapes and configure them with world oceans through relative location, direction and latitude and longitude starting points. They recognize the shape of the continents. Students recognize...
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Map Skills: Explorers, Continents, and Oceans
Third graders use a software program to make and label a map of the world. On the map, they locate the seven continents, oceans and the countries of Europe. They also draw the routes of Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de Leon and...
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2nd Grade - Act. 22: The World Game
Second graders play World Game to become more familiar with continents, oceans, countries and states.
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Continents and Critters
Students investigate and identify the continents of the world. They identify and locate the seven continents on a map, and label a coloring page of a world map. Students then conduct research on an assigned continent, and write and...
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Continents and Oceans
In this word search about continents and oceans worksheet, students identify the words in the word bank, label them continents or oceans, and identify the four pictures of continents. Students write 22 answers.
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Geography
First graders recall names and placement of 7 continents. They recall cardinal directions. They identify and locate 3 oceans.
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Continents of the Globe
Learners identify the continents on the globe. In this map skills lesson, students define the term "continent" and identify the seven continents on the globe.
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What Do You Know About Oceans?
Pupils brainstorm and discuss what they know about oceans and seas, read poem My Ocean Speaks by Olga Cossi, discuss narrator's feelings about ocean, write reflective journal entries about their experience or inexperience with the ocean,...
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The Globe Game
Students locate continents, oceans, and major mountain ranges on the globe. In this globe lesson, students play a toss the globe game. They name the continent, ocean, or major mountain range that is located closest to their right thumb...
Institute for Geophysics
Understanding Maps of Earth
Here is your go-to student resource on primary geography concepts, including facts about the surface of the earth and its hemispheres, latitude and longitude, globes, types of maps, and identifying continents and oceans.
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Where in the World Is…
Students identify countries, oceans, states, and more on a globe and on a flat map. In this geography lesson plan, students also locate places around their school.
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Continents and Oceans Word Search
In this geography learning exercise, students locate the names of 18 continents and oceans in a word search. Students write a C by the continents in the word bank and O for the oceans. Then students identify 5 continents by looking at...
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Where in the World? Oceans & Continents
In this geography worksheet, learners answer 6 questions using a coded map as a reference, then students identify labeled geographic features.
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Seas, Gulfs and Bays
Students define gulf, bay, and sea. In this bodies of water mapping instructional activity, students locate seas, gulfs and bays and explain how they knew which body of water it was.
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World Map and Globe
Students practice using a globe. In this geography lesson, students review globes and practice locating the earth's oceans. Students use the globe to locate and identify the seven continents.
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Exploring the Continents Through the Arts
Students examine the continents and explore geographic components in the fifteen lessons of this unit. The location of the continents, the equator, the four major oceans, and the music, food, literature, dance, and drama from each of the...
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Geography: Continents
First graders identify basic geographical facts about the world they live in and distinguish between land and water on a globe. They research the continents and information associated with each one focusing on building their map skills.
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World Map and Globe - Lesson 1 Introduction to the Globe
Young scholars explore the earth with maps and globes. In this map lesson plan, students use maps and globes to locate oceans and continents.
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Introduction to the Globe
Students investigate how to use a globe. For this map skills lesson, students define what a globe is and locate the various continents on the globe. Students are also asked to locate the four oceans on the globe.
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Where in the world is...
Students identify locations around the world. In this mapping lesson plan, students place tag board pieces with names of locations on a wall map of the world. Initially, students identify states, then cities, then continents,...
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New: Around the World
First graders identify and demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment. They use a map and a globe to label where the students in the book came from, point out the continent, and show which ocean...
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The Earth's BIG Features
Your students will enjoy the vivid pictures and interesting facts about world geography, in this presentation. Depicted are several major geographical features found around the world and a description of each.