Standard: Grade 3: Locate these continents on a map or a globe.

Group Summaries:
Content: The content we chose was developed upon our standard. We made sure to include all content
that would cover the criteria. Its imperative to incorporate all methods leading up to the overall
standard being taught. This allows the students to grasp the nature of the lesson while learning detailed
descriptions of the topic.
Learning Activities: We chose the activities that we did because of the overlap to cover all areas of the
standard. There are assignments that allow the students to practice naming the continents, water, and
the landforms. The activities give them a variety of ways to practice. There is a graphic organizer for the
landforms, an interactive passport for learning about the different continents, and a google map activity
with a graphic organizer all allow the students to learn about different aspects of the physical geography
of the Earth.
Assessment: The assessments we chose were all interrelated and designed to make sure the children
learned about maps, continents, and geographical aspects. One assessment that was chosen was giving
the children an interactive passport to create on their own helps keep them engaged while also making
sure they are listening in class so they can write down the facts they are learning. Another assessment
was to have the children read a legend on a map and then look at a blank map and copy the legend onto
the blank map. The last assessment was to have the students create papier-mch globe to show where
certain mountain ranges, rivers, and lakes were. These were all chosen to help students with their
geography around the world.
Online Resources: The online resources vary from worksheets and resources found on
TeachersPayTeachers to YouTube Videos and an interactive Google Map assignment. Some of our
sources are just for the teachers and some are for the students to use. We chose these because they are
interactive. Songs allow students remember the names of the continents better. Google Maps allows
the kids to explore on their own and discover new information by themselves.
Book Resources: The books that were chosen were based upon the standard. They cover all topics
related to the geographical characteristics such as landforms, mountains, rivers, lakes, and continents.
These books were also chosen to include engagement by giving a visual representation to the students.
Elizabeth Smith:
Standard: Grade 3: Locate the continents on a map or globe
Objective: Students will identify each continent on a map with 100% accuracy and recall one fact about
each continent with 85% accuracy when given a test.
Content:
Locating the 7 Continents
Being able to identify at least one country from each continent
The names of the 7 continents
Reading books about the continents and their cultures

Activity: The student will complete a passport using the internet and books that requires them to fill out
4 facts about each continent. They will do this is rotations and groups and they will travel to each
continent and there will be resources at each station pertaining to that continent. They will have to
identify one country on each continent and find out about the landforms, animals, people, and another
fast fact about that location. They will also identify the correct shape of the continent. They will
complete this for each continent.
Assessment: Students will be given a blank map with a word bank and be required to match the name to
the continent. There will also be a second sheet where they will recall one of the facts that they learned
while doing their passport for each continent.
Online Resource: I will have the students watch videos on YouTube that sing the names of the
continents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0YyyzY4Yg
Teachers Pay Teachers
Childrens Book: Wonders of the World by Philip Steele and other books such as this for the children to
use for their research to finish their passport.
Sarah Crocker:
Standard: AL. Third Grade. Locating major mountain ranges, oceans, rivers, and lakes through the world
Objective: Students will create a papier-mch globe making sure to identify all 2 major mountain
ranges, 4 oceans, 3 rivers, and 2 lakes throughout the world in to get 100% accuracy.
Content:

The students will learn about various mountain ranges, oceans, rivers, and lakes throughout the
world and what they are.
Locating Himalayas and Andes mountain ranges
Locating the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans
Locating Nile, Mississippi, and the Congo rivers
Locating Caspian Sea and the Great Lakes
The teacher will use google maps to show children what the world looks like
A book will be read about different land forms, lakes, and rivers formed all around the world.

Activity: The teacher will show the students different mountain ranges, oceans, rivers, and lakes
throughout the world using google maps. The teacher will allow the students to be interactive and will
let each one choose of the land forms, oceans, or lakes to look at. Every student will be involved in this
activity. Students will also fill out a graphic organizer. The first triangle will be labeled with what is
geography, the second will be labeled what is a mountain range, the third will be labeled what is an
ocean, the fourth will be labeled what is a river, and the last one will be labeled what is lake. The will
write sentences describing each one and they will use examples from what they learned in the lesson.
(attached)

Assessment: Students will be split into groups of 3 and will create a papier-mch globe and identify the
Himalayas and Andes mountain ranges, the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic Ocean, the Nile, Mississippi,
the Congo rivers, the Caspian Sea and the Great Lakes. They must show each of the ones above on their
papier-mch globes in order to receive full credit.
Materials:
White sheets of construction paper
Masking tape
12-inch pieces of string (one per group)
Pencils, glue, and rulers
Colored markers or crayons
Black felt tip pens
Newspaper, cut into strips
White glue, watered down
Large balloons (one per group)
World maps, geography textbooks, and other library resources
Computer with Internet access
Online Resource: Using Google Maps as a visual in order to show the students what mountain ranges,
oceans, rivers, and lakes are.

Childrens Book: Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney

Carly Coyne:
Standard: Grade 3: Locate the continents on a map or globe
Objective: Students will identify landforms around the world by illustrating them on a map with at least
90% accuracy given in the assessment.
Content:
What are landforms
Names of landforms including hill, plateau, valley, peninsula, island, isthmus, ice cap, and glacier
Description of each landform
How these landforms differ
Where these specific landforms take place in the world and what types of environments
Reading books about the specific landforms.
Learning activity:
Students will be given a blank sheet of paper to complete a foldable. The foldable will consist of the 8
landforms discussed in class. Under each flap the students will write facts about the particular landform
including a short description, region, and picture.

Assessment:
The students will be given a blank map with a legend that has pictures on it. They will identify the
landform pictures and draw and color them in the correct area on the map. They will be required to
identify at least one place on the map for each landform.
Sources:
Teachers Pay Teachers Foldable (http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/LandformsFoldable-Freebie-683253)
What is a Landform? by Rebecca Rissman