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For information about other Evan-Moor products, call 1-800-777-4362 or FAX 1-800-777-4332. Visit our Web site www.evan-moor.com for additional product information. Entire contents ©1999 by EVAN-MOOR CORP. 18 Lower Ragsdale Drive, Monterey, CA 93940-5746. Permission is hereby granted to the individual purchaser to reproduce student materials in this book for noncommercial individual or single classroom use only. Permission is not granted for schoolwide, or systemwide, reproduction of materials. Printed in U.S.A. Introducing North America Tour the Geography Center Introduce the Geography Center to your class. Show the research materials and explain their uses. Ask students to locate the sections of atlases and almanacs containing material about North America. Thinking about North America Prepare a KWL chart in advance. Reproduce page 8 for each student. Give students a period of time (5–10 minutes) to list facts they already know about North America and questions about the continent they would like answered. Know Want to Know Half Dome at Yosemite Learned National Park Name inking abo Th ____________ What do you alrea dy know about the unique and fascin ating continent of North America? ____________ ____________ ____________ _______ ____________ ____________ ____________ _______ ____________ ____________ ____________ _______ ____________ ____________ ____________ _______ ____________ ____________ ____________ _______ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ . n ________ ____________ the Use ____ ____ es.____ plac ____ If you could talk . _________ ion to other map ted in relat ____ on the world ____ erica ____ Am____ re a place is loca ____ th____ totion some tells onewhe from ss it.________________ you find Nor help a acro____ to Relative loca tion _ loca e North Americ Nortitsh relat ____ writ____ Ameiverica, and____ w ____ what belo ____ map description of ____ the ____________ woul _________ continent on Color in the d you ask? hern ____________ nort ____ ted in the ____________ e continent loca ____ ____________ e. It is a is a larg _ the North Pol ________ North Americ and ____ equator____ ____ans. ere between the ____________ Oce _________________________ hemisph ____________ Pacific and Atlantic ____________ the een ____________ situated betw ____________ ____________ ____ _____ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ North ____ _____ ____________ Pacific ____ ____________ North ____________ Ocean Atlantic ________ ____________ North _________ n ____ Ocea ____ ____________ Pacific ____________ Ocean ____________ South ________ _ ic Pacif____ n Indian Ocea ©1999 by Evan-M oor Corp. South Pacific Ocean Where Is North America? ________ ____Loc ____atio ____ ____________ ca ____ th Ameri Locating Nor____ Name Transfer their responses to the KWL chart. Post the chart in a place where you can add to it throughout your study of the continent. ut North America Ocean South Atlantic Ocean8 North America • EMC 763 .Location Name Reproduce pages 9 and 10 for each student. “Locating North America” helps students locate North America using relative location. Use the introductory paragraph to review the definition of relative location, and then have students complete the page. Name the Hemisphere a hemisphere. tions: When it is called The globe can be divided in half two ways. Each halfe isthei r relative loca es and writ hemispheres are created. When it is southerneand placnorthern divided at the equator, the _ erica. Find thes ______hemiand the western ___eastern Nor th prime meridian and 180° longitude,___ theAm along ______ a map of Look atdivided ______ ___ spheres are created. _____________________ _____ _________ ____________ ___ ___ ___ 1. Cuba ______ ______North America is located, and then in which the hemispheres ____________ Use a globe to identify __ ____________ ____________ ada ______ the sentences . ____________ 2. Cancomplete ____________ ____________ r _________ 3. El Salvado northern hemisphere eastern hemisphere Bonus attend. the school you ive location of Write the relat ca • EMC 763 North Ameri 9 oor Corp. ©1999 by Evan-M western hemisphere southern hemisphere “Name the Hemisphere” reviews the Earth’s division into hemispheres. Students are asked to name the hemispheres in which North America is located. Using a globe to demonstrate the divisions, read the introduction together. Then have students complete the page. ©1999 by Evan-Moor Corp. 7 North America is in the North America is in the __________________ hemisphere and ____________________ hemisphere. the ___________________ hemisphere. Bonus Look carefully at a globe. Find the continent that touches all four hemispheres. ©1999 by Evan-Moor Corp. 10 North America • EMC 763 North America • EMC 763 T t Name ing abou hink North America ___________________________________________ What do you already know about the unique and fascinating continent of North America? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ If you could talk to someone from North America, what would you ask? _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ ©1999 by Evan-Moor Corp. 8 North America • EMC 763 .Location Name Locating North America Relative location tells where a place is located in relation to other places. Use the description of its relative location to help you find North America on the world map. Color in the continent on the map below and write North America across it. North America is a large continent located in the northern hemisphere between the equator and the North Pole. It is situated between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. North Pacific Ocean South Pacific Ocean North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean South Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean South Pacific Ocean Look at a map of North America. Find these places and write their relative locations: 1. Cuba ________________________________________________________________ 2. Canada ______________________________________________________________ 3. El Salvador ___________________________________________________________ Bonus Write the relative location of the school you attend. ©1999 by Evan-Moor Corp. 9 North America • EMC 763
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