Creating a World Map

  

In this lesson you will take a quick pre-assessment to see how many continents and oceans you remember. Then you will hand draw the continents and label them and the oceans. You will finish up by coloring them. 

 

Essential Question: Can you label the continents and oceans of the world? 

Engage:

• The Geography Song (2:51)

Explore:

• Pre-Assessment- Continents and Oceans  Continents and Oceans Quiz (10 minutes)
• Identify the continents and oceans of the world

Evaluate:

• Hand draw, label and color a map. Identify the continents and ocean
• Continents and Oceans will be colored neatly.
• Continents and Oceans will be correctly labeled.
• Name will be place on the back of the map.

Expectations:

• You will have a maximum of 4 days in class to work on the assignment
• Map due date for full credit is Wednesday, August 30. You will receive half credit after that date.
• While working you may talk quietly and go to supply table for supplies.
• When finished place map on tray (even though it won't fit in it)
• At the end of class, turn in map to tray even if it is not finished. 
• After the last day of classroom work time you will need to take the map home to finish.

Creating a World Map

In this lesson you will take a quick pre-assessment to see how many continents and oceans you remember. Then you will hand draw the continents and label them and the oceans. You will finish up by coloring them. 

 

Essential Question: Can you label the continents and oceans of the world?

Engage:

• Continents and Oceans Quiz
• Pre-Assessment- Continents and Oceans

Explore:

• The Geography Song (2:51)
• Identify the continents and oceans of the world

Evaluate:

• Hand draw, label and color a map. Identify the continents and oceans. 

Making a World Map

 

In this lesson you will take a quick pre-assessment to see how many continents and oceans you remember. Then you will hand draw the continents and label them and the oceans. You will finish up by coloring them. 

Essential Question: Can you label the continents and oceans of the world?

Engage:

• Continents and Oceans Quiz
• Pre-Assessment- Continents and Oceans

Explore:

• The Geography Song (2:51)
• Identify the continents and oceans of the world

Evaluate:

• Hand draw, label and color a map. Identify the continents and oceans. 

Where is El Dorado?

Eldorado

By Edgar Allan Poe

Gaily bedight,

   A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,   

   Had journeyed long,   

   Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

   But he grew old—

   This knight so bold—   

And o’er his heart a shadow—   

   Fell as he found

   No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

   And, as his strength   

   Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—   

   ‘Shadow,’ said he,   

   ‘Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?’

   ‘Over the Mountains

   Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,   

   Ride, boldly ride,’

   The shade replied,—

‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48634/eldorado-56d22a0920778

EQ:

• Is El Dorado a real place?

Engage:

• None

Explore:

• Digging for the Truth: The Search for El Dorado
• Eldorado poem by Edgar Allen Poe

Explain:

• How is the El Dorado that Josh Bernstein searches for like Poe's Eldorado?
• How are they different?

Evaluate:

• Draw and color a picture inspired by the poem. Try to include at least one detail from the poem.
• Write a short story about you, the narrator, searching for El Dorado. This story should be at least 350 words long.

Creating a World Map

In this lesson you will take a quick pre-assessment to see how many continents and oceans you remember. Then you will hand draw the continents and label them and the oceans. You will finish up by coloring them. 

Essential Question: Can you label the continents and oceans of the world?

Engage:

• Pre-Assessment- Continents and Oceans
• Continents and Oceans Game

Explore:

• Identify the continents and oceans of the world

• The Geography Song (2:51)

Explain:

Evaluate:

• Hand draw, label and color a map. Identify the continents and oceans. 

Extend:

Kiva in the Classroom

A few years ago I created a Kiva group for my students to make micro loans. We ended up loaning out $100 that year. Today we are going to start lending again.

The students will be using the website Dollar Street to examine the homes and lives of disparate people living all around the world. From that information we will choose a country to target for our micro loan. We will then go to Kiva and look for someone we want to invest in and we will make the loan.

Kiva site
Dollar Street

Me Toloui
Mary Grace
Rahaf