Jan. 24, 2007: The Seven Continents
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Activities:
1. Create your own continent.
Draw its shape on a piece of paper. Put in mountains and rivers. Give
your continent a name. Write a sentence telling about your continent.
2. Try to find news stories
from as many continents as possible. Write the headlines from the stories
on a piece of paper. Next to each headline, write the name of the country
and continent where the news happens. Are you missing any continents?
Why do you think the newspaper doesn't have stories from there?
3. Which continent would you
visit if you wanted to (a) see a lot of snow and ice, (b) tropical rain
forests and mountains, (c) a long river and huge desert, and (d) many
different climates?
4. Use resource books and the
Internet to learn more about one of the continents in today¹s Mini
Page. Use these questions to guide your research:
- What is the geographic location of the continent?
- What are its physical features - rivers, mountains, shoreline, etc.?
- How does its geography relate to the continent¹s natural resources?
- How do the natural resources affect its economy?
- How have the natural resources and economy of the continent influenced the social and cultural development of the people who live there?
Write a detailed paragraph
discussing your findings.
This week's standards:
- Students understand the physical and human characteristics of places. (Geography: Places and Regions)
- Students compute
fluently and make reasonable estimates. (Mathematics: Numbers and Operations)
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
