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Curated OER

Cut-Out Continents Mobile

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars research major natural features on all seven continents. They compare and contrast continents, their sizes, shapes, and major landforms. Students create a unique display of the continents to show major landforms.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Seven Continents Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Who doesn't enjoy an engaging scavenger hunt? Here, scholars listen to, and discuss, the informative text, Where is my Continent? by Robin Nelson. They then explore the seven continents and four major oceans using Google Earth.  
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Make a Balloon Globe

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
"We've got the whole world in our hands," is what your students will be singing after completing this fun geography activity. Using the included templates for the seven continents and a balloon, they create their very own globes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Continents on the Move

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the tectonic plates of the Earth and how the landforms of Earth have changed position over time. In groups, they identify the evidence that the continents are still moving. To end the lesson, they practice measuring...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Continents and Oceans Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
Here is a simple quiz you can give your geographers. In it, they must list the world's seven continents and five oceans. They color the landforms green and oceans blue.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rolling Around the Continents

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners practice throwing skills by rolling a ball at a target, and practice the location of the seven continents, the equator, and the northern and southern hemispheres.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tear the Continents

For Teachers K - 3rd
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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Curated OER

Identifying and locating the continents and oceans of the world.

For Teachers 3rd
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

World Continents

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars identify the continents of the world. In groups, students create a three-dimensional clay representation of their assigned continent. Using KidPix software, they draw and color their continent. Young scholars research...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Continent Word Search

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this continents word search worksheet, students locate the names of the 7 continents, listed in the word bank, within the word search puzzle. Students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences with the appropriate continent names.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Continent Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students order the continents in terms of area, population and other geographic terms.
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Continental Differences

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students break into groups and closely investigate primary sources associated with the seven different continents. After deciding which continent their primary sources relate to, representatives from each group present their findings to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cities, States, Countries & Continents

For Students 4th - 5th
In this geography activity, students fill in 7 blanks with the correct geography word. Clues are given for each blank, and answers are provided.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

How Were European Nations Capable of Dominating the African Continent?

For Students 7th - 8th
Primary source documents provide a realistic context for pupils to explore. Included are 5 experts relating European ideals and methods for colonizing and controlling the African continent. Middle schoolers answer 4 critical-thinking...
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Curated OER

Continents and Critters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Continents Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners study geography. For this geographic terms lessons, students compare the continents based on their different features. They work as a class to put the continents in order from least to greatest based on the different geographic...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Continents and Oceans

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this word search about continents and oceans learning exercise, 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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Interactive
Curated OER

Continent of Africa

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this geography worksheet, students examine a map of Africa and read about the characteristics of the continent. They use the map and information to answer 10 online fill in the blank questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Continents of the Globe

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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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Curated OER

Continent Adventure

For Teachers K - 5th
Students review or learn information regarding the 7 continents on our planet. It is also a fun movement and fitness activity.
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Curated OER

Locate and Name the bodies of water and the continents

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders locate the equator, bodies of water, and different continents on a globe. In this globe lesson plan, 2nd graders recall geographical information on a globe.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

United States Map- Continent, Country, State

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students identify their continent, country, and state on a globe. In this geography lesson, students use a globe to identify the seven continents, the United States, and the state which they live in. Students define key terms.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Name That Continent

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners practice locating the seven continents, four hemispheres, and four oceans using a large world map and a review song. They also import a world map to the Kid Pix computer program then type in proper labels on the map. There are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning About the Equator, The Seven Continents and the Four Oceans

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use a globe or map to locate the equator, oceans and continents. Using the internet, they spend time surfing through predetermined websites on continents and oceans. They write facts on different parts of the globe on index...