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Geography · Grade 2

Locate Land and Water

Earth's land is split into seven continents and its water into five oceans. Learners find every continent and ocean on a world map, spin a globe to compare it with a flat map, use the equator and the North and South Poles as guide marks, and put continents and oceans in order of size, starting with our own continent, North America.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 55 minutes
  • Continents and oceans check: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, pick map regions, match pairs, put in order, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Name and find the seven continents on a world map.
  • Name and find the five oceans on a world map.
  • Compare a globe with a flat map and use the equator and the North and South Poles to describe where places are.
  • Put continents and oceans in order of size and name the continent we live on.

Lessons

  1. Seven continents 5 steps2 practiceabout 15 min
  2. Five oceans 5 steps3 practiceabout 13 min
  3. Globe, map, equator and poles 5 steps3 practiceabout 14 min
  4. Biggest and smallest 5 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  5. Continents and oceans check 8 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Mapmaker QuestFollow directions to make a map, then read its legend, compass rose and scale.

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