Julie Collins
ED 417-01
Social Studies/Geography
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2
Grade-Geography
The Seven Continents & The
Four Oceans
OBJECTIVES
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Students will be able to identify the
seven continents with and without using
a map, as well as the four major oceans.
Materials
A large classroom world map.
● Individual small maps for the children.
● Words to the “continent chat” either
posted in the classroom or for each
individual child.
● Crayons, colored pencils or markers
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North America
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North America is
where the United
States of America is
located. Do we live in
the United States?
What are the countries
above and below the
United States?
South America
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South America is the
continent SOUTH of
North America. Do
you know any
countries in South
America? Have you
ever been there?
Europe
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Europe is EAST of
North America. It is a
bunch of countries
that look like they are
scattered and not all
together.
Asia
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Asia is connected to
Europe. Asia is
directly EAST of
Europe.
What is the biggest
country that you can
see in Asia??
Africa
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Africa is SOUTH of
Europe and Asia and
is EAST of North and
South America.
What do you know
about Africa??
Antarctica
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Antarctica is all the way
at the SOUTHERN end
of the map. It is the white
colored continent. If you
were to turn and look at
the bottom of the globe,
Antarctica would look
like this the second
picture.
Australia
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Australia is SOUTH
of Asia and Europe
and is EAST of
Africa.
Is Australia the
smallest of the 7
continents?
Pacific Ocean
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The Pacific Ocean is
located to the WEST
of North and South
America in between
the continents where
the darker blue area is
shaded.
Atlantic Ocean
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The Atlantic Ocean
shown is bordered by
North and South
America, Africa and
Europe. The Atlantic
is shown in the darker
blue shaded areas.
Indian Ocean
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The Indian Ocean is
located to the EAST
of Africa, to the
SOUTH of Asia and
to the WEST of
Australia. It is also
located to the
NORTH of
Antarctica.
Arctic Ocean
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The Arctic Ocean is
hard to see on a flat
map. You can see it
easier on a 3dimensional globe. It
is located NORTH of
North America and
Asia.
Student Activities
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The students will first use the compass located
on their own personal maps to navigate through
their maps as I give directions to certain
continents. (North, South, East and West)
Students will complete their own world map.
They will label the blank seven continents and
the blank four oceans and color code the way
that they would like.
Student Activities Cont.
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Students can learn different songs and chants about the
7 continents and 4 oceans. Below is a link to a great
website with many ideas of songs to sing.
http://teachers.net/gazette/DEC02/continents.html
Below is also a link for different types of maps,
including world maps and pictures of individual
continents. These are the maps the students will color
and label themselves for future reference.
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/
Student Activities Continued
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Students can take the continents and oceans quiz
connected to the following link;
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/continents/quiz.shtml
Play the GeoSpy continent game, keeping in mind that Australia is
sometimes referred to as Oceania. This game can be found on the link
below;
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/
Play the continents hangman game with the link below;
http://www.quia.com/hm/46193.html
Web Sites
Enchanted Learning/ World Geography
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/gegraphy/
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National Geographic GeoSpy Geography Game
for Kids
●http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/
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Google Search/graphics
●www.google.com
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