Student Name: Hadeal Mansour
Grade and Topic: 3- Social Studies
Mentor Teacher: Dr. Amy Adcock
Memphis
Lesson Plan # 2
Length of Lesson: 70 min.
School: University of
UNIT FOCUS:
Identify/Locate major continents and oceans
Requisite skills:
Knowledge of how to locate physical features on a map.
Understanding the difference of continents and oceans.
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
TSW identify and compare/contrast the major continents and oceans. (Analyzing)
TSW understand where to find physical features on a map or globe orally and in writing.
(Understanding)
STANDARDS ADDRESSED:
3.1 Process and report information identifying, locating, comparing, and
contrasting the major continents and oceans: North America, South America,
Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia, Antarctica, Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and
Southern using maps, globes, and other technologies.
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3.6 Use different types of maps (political, physical, population, resource, polar
projection, and climate) and globe skills to interpret geographic information
from a graph or chart.
MATERIALS
Over head projector
Paper with continents and oceans
Laminated map of a globe
Dry erase markers
Poster board
TheContinentsSong.(n.d.).RetrievedMarch27,2015,from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVrN0aQV1o
Continent and Ocean game
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/world_G0_Click.html
BACKGROUND and RATIONALE:
The key components of this lesson are to teach students understanding of locating
physical features on a map or globe.
Critical academic language includes: word identification, compare and contrast,
analyzing and locating.
Students have been studying and identifying all fifty of the United States and
should be familiar with the concepts of locating physical features on a map or
globe.
Students will continue using identification strategies in subsequent lessons.
I am attentive that the lesson will be differentiated for students who did not master
the goals and assessments and for those ready for enhancement. The
differentiation will be used throughout each day of the lesson for all students,
including English Language Learners and students with disabilities. Students will
work in-group activities according to their level of knowledge of continents and
oceans.
PROCEDURES and TIMELINE:
Introductions: (10 mins)
1. TTW: Ask students to share what they remember about our lesson with the
fifty states in America.
2. TTW: Tell students that today they will be about continents and oceans.
3. TTW: Ask the students if they know what the seven continents and four
oceans are and if they heard any mentioned before.
4. TTW: Allow the students to raise their hands and name the
continents/oceans that they know.
5. TTW: Write the names of the continents and oceans they say on the white
board.
Procedures: (50 mins)
1. TTW: Show the YouTube video about the seven continents and four
oceans. The video teaches the seven continents and four oceans through
song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVrN-0aQV1o
2. TTW: Ask the students if they learned any new continents or oceans from
the video that they did not know before.
Add the additional continents/oceans to the white board list.
3. TSW: Play the continent and ocean game.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/world_G0_Click.html
4. TTW: Tell the students that they will work on this game on their own.
Closure: (10 mins)
1. Once the students have finished playing the continent and oceans game on
their own, they will all be assigned a quiz to finish.
2. TSW: Review all of the continents and oceans after they have finished the
quiz.
ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE:
Formative assessments- TTW orally ask students to locate physical features on a
map or globe. TTW assess students by observing their intake on the difference
and similarities of a continent and ocean. TTW assess the students ability to
correctly identify and label physical features with 100% accuracy.
MODIFICATIONS:
Students that need additional help for mastery:
Throughout this lesson I am going to incorporate Gardeners multiple
intelligences. I believe that all children learn differently; therefore, I plan to
incorporate the different multiple intelligences in order to help the students recall
the seven continents and oceans better. I will show the students how to label and
gradually allow them to identify the oceans and continents on their own.
Students that will require additional challenging assignment:
Students who need additional challenging assignments will start to identify and
locate all the different countries we have.
