This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching third grade students about the seven continents. It analyzes the class, which has 20 students from various backgrounds and learning styles. The objective is for students to identify and label each continent and its key features on a map with 90% accuracy by the end of the week. The daily breakdown outlines activities for each day, such as introducing continents and oceans through songs and videos on Monday, learning continent placements on Tuesday, discussing landmarks and features on Wednesday, and people and animals on Thursday. Technology like PowerPoint, videos, and interactive maps will be used. Assessment includes an interactive map game and an arts and bots group project on Friday.

1. THE 7 CONTINENTS
MIKALYN MURPHY

2. ANALYZE THE LEARNER
• The students are third graders. There are 20 students total, with 12 being boys and 8 being
girls. 4 of the students are Latino, 6 are Italian, and 10 are Caucasian. They have little to no
prior knowledge on the continents and their location. Their learning styles vary greatly with
most learning more from doing an activity, while few of them learn efficiently from just
listening. To verify their knowledge before hand I will ask them general questions to figure
out where to start at.

3. OBJECTIVE
• The students in the third grade class will identify and distinguish each continent by name and
location on a map, as well as some important characteristics about each continent. These
important characteristics include bordering oceans and major landmarks found on each
continent. Given a blank map of the world, each student must individually label the
continents, oceans, and important landmarks on the map by the end of the week with 90%
accuracy without assistance.

4. DAILY BREAKDOWN
• Monday- Introduction to the oceans and continents
• Introduce the continents, oceans, globe, and map to the students
• Show students catchy song and have them sing along
• Tuesday- Learn the placement of each continent
• Take students to the playground and label each piece of equipment a continent. Then they have to run each piece whenever that continent is
yelled out
• Let It Go remix YouTube video highlighting each continent
• YouTube video discussing the location of each continent
• Color a map of the world labeling each continent and ocean

5. DAILY BREAKDOWN
• Wednesday- Discuss the physical features and landmarks of each continent
• Video of Interesting Facts
• Present Poster showing students the map of the world and one important landmark found on each continent
• Have students read Blog
• Students will complete WebQuest highlighting the physical features, landmarks, and climate of each continent
• Thursday- People and Animals of each Continent
• Digital Storytelling
• WebQuest highlighting the people and animals of each continent
• Zello using iPads to ask questions that night while planning their Arts and Bots
• Twitter follow National Geographic using class page and tell the students that every week I will highlight an article tweeted that
week
• Friday- Practice, Arts and Bots
• Shepherdsoftware.net
• Students will get into groups and complete their Arts and Bots
• Present Globalization PowerPoint and how it ties into the continents

6. TECHNOLOGY USED
• PowerPoint
• Youtube
• Videos
• Computer
• Online Interactive Map
• Zello
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Blogs
• WebQuests
• Arts and Bots

7. WORKS CITED
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqsCWZtZlk4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9l4t9QssoA
• http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/2019/2067868/BlankMaps/World%20Map.gif
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urr53arh--E
• http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/World_Continents.htm
• http://merylv.hubpages.com/hub/creative-ways-to-teach-continents