Geography is a way of seeing the world. It is fundamentally about the connections that exist between people, places, and the environment, and the ways in which these factors influence each other.
This unit study is suppose to refresh the memory for students who have already studied these concepts in the past. It also serves as an introduction for younger siblings who will study these topics in details in coming years. As always we include a rich diversity of learning tools, free printables, audios, videos, note booking and scrap booking page ideas, art lessons and suggested links to paid programs that you may or may not have access. Hopefully our children can learn that our great big world gets smaller each day via technology. May they realize that the war and famine in one country isn't just a headline but something that should touch their heart. |
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* Warm up: play Throw the Globe. Its an easy game of catch. Toss a beach ball sized inflatable globe. When you catch it and tell us what continent/ocean is your right hand on.
Do you know anything about the location? Tell us! If not - see if you can find something on the globe (ocean or continent that you DO know something about! and tell us before you throw it to another player) * Think about: What is geography? geo = earth, graphy = write. Why is it important? Watch the introduction to Geography video. watch the video and tell someone ONE reason geography is important Activity: Create a travel journal/binder. This will be our binder for the neat projects, printable and foldables that we will be collecting throughout our study. Your binder is YOUR book created to record the things you find fascinating about our great big world. {We are using 2 inch binders with covers you personalize by sliding pages in and out. A report cover would work too!} Here's some great ideas to cover your binder.
Lesson Content: finding our way with maps, globes and GPS Maps and Globes Free Brainpop Lesson plan for teaching Map Skills
GPS Today we have Google Maps! We have pictures, and GPS...but how do these things work? How can we find our way around the great big world? WATCH the video GPS a quicktime video from NASA. We also have another video that's a little more in depth and talks about relativity, time and Einstein! After watching the video can you answer HOW a GPS Works? (hint: satellites are involved...) Add this note taking sheet to your journal write and illustrate. Just for fun watch 2 year old Lilly as she shows you around the map! Cute kiddo knows her map! Key Vocabulary
_________________________________________________ Teachers: free printable lesson on teaching latitude is located at TeachersPayTeachers (registration required to download) |
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inflatable globe magazines, clip art, old maps for cutting binder printables Cartography MAP Art Lesson![]() |
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