This document provides instructions for a lesson on continents and oceans. It includes objectives to identify and locate the 7 continents and 5 major oceans. Students will take a pre-assessment, then research fun facts about each continent on their laptops. The lesson will also include an interactive notebook activity where students color and label a map of the continents and oceans, and work in groups to research and present facts about an assigned continent.

1. Entry Task:
1) What is a continent?
2) How many continents are
there on Earth?

2. Objectives:
 The students will be able to identify
and locate each of the 7
continents.
 The students will be able to identify
and locate each of the 5 major
oceans.

3. Pre-Assessment:
Not graded!
Show what you know!
Go over directions together!

4. When you are finished…
 Raise your hand.
 Ms. Cole will collect your pre- assessment.
 Quietly use your MacBook to research
fun facts about each of the 7
continents! Record the facts
somewhere on your laptop (notes,
pages, word doc, google doc)

5. Entry Task:
 List the 7 continents.
 What continent do we live on?

6. Interactive Notebook:
Date = 9-8-16
Title = Continents & Oceans
Page # = ?

7. The Continents
 About one third of the earth is made
up of land areas.
 The large land areas are called
continents.
 There are seven continents: Asia,
Africa, North America, South America,
Europe, Australia, and Antarctica.

8. The Seven Continents
North
America
South
America
Asia
Europe
Africa
Australia
Antarctica

9. Oceans
 About two thirds of the earth is
covered by water.
 Oceans are the largest areas of water
on the earth.
 There are five oceans: the Arctic
Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic
Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the
Southern Ocean.

10. The Five Oceans
Pacific
Ocean
Atlantic
Ocean
Indian
Ocean
Southern Ocean

11. Brain Pop!
 https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudie
s/geography/continentsoftheworld/

12. Map!
 Directions: Color and
label all 7 continents
and 5 oceans.
– North America = red
– South America = purple
– Asia = green
– Europe = orange
– Australia = yellow
– Antarctica = pink
– Africa = dark blue
– Pacific Ocean = blue
– Atlantic Ocean = blue
– Indian Ocean = blue
– Arctic Ocean = blue
– Southern Ocean = blue

13. Continent Posters!
Each table group will be
assigned a continent.
As a team, research fun facts
about your assigned
continent.
Record your fun facts.