Geography Lesson Plans

GEOGRAPHY


LESSON 1: Lesson to introduce the topic:
  • Video using EDPuzzle to reflect on the importance of Geography.

  • Presentation of the different ways we can use to represent the Earth: globes and maps (political and physical, and about important parts and ideas related to them.

    https://quizlet.com/_3kmqo3 
      
LESSON 2: Lesson that continues introducing the topic:

During this session we will reflect on the ideas that we introduced in the previous session and work on them.

1º) Make a padlet with the students reflecting on the importance of Geography:
https://padlet.com/rbermejo2010/

2º) Continue playing with Quizlet games (https://quizlet.com/_3kmqo3 )

3º) Making an activity about reading maps. 

From Pinterest:
https://kingproehl.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/reading_maps_handout_1.jpg 
https://es.pinterest.com/pin/479422322822853568/ 

4º)  Task: make a map at home representing the student´s neighbourhood. (1 week time)


LESSON 3: Lesson to work on the bodies of land and the water bodies

During this session we will work on these ideas using Montessori images representing all the land masses and bodies of water while we are watching them in the videos.

1º) Bodies of water:
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2º) Landforms: land masses and bodies of water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqKTJtK_vw


LESSON 4: Lesson to continue working on the bodies of land and the water bodies

Students will prepare schemas and mind maps about the landforms. They will use their books to complete them and the information from the videos that the teacher will copy or project on the whiteboard.


LESSON 5: Lesson about the main landforms and bodies of water around the world


  • We start the session listening to this song: 
Seven continents song
  • We continue reading and checking the information about the continents, oceans and seas in our reference text book.
  • We continue playing with Enrique Alonso maps:
¿Dónde está? 
¿Cómo se llama?
  • We finish the session singing the song all together.


LESSON 6: Mountains and rivers of the world / Countries and cities of the world

During this lesson we will prepare our physical and political world maps:


  • Let´s start preparing our physical world map adding:
1º) Oceans and seas: Pacific, Atlantic, Artic, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea,
2º) Mountains: Rocky Mountains, Himalayas, Alps, Andes, Great Dividing Range, Atlas Mountains.
3º) Rivers: Amazon, Nile, Mississippi, Volga, Yangtze, Darling.


  • We continue preparing our political world map, locating some important countries and capital cities/cities such as: USA (Washington DC/New York), Brasil (Brasilia/Río de Janeiro), Russia (Moscow- Moscú), China (Beijing), Japan (Tokyo-Tokio), ... we will include different countries taking into account the nationality and background of our students and their families.
  • Monuments of the world. Introduce the investigation with this video. Then explain them the research that they will prepare at home. 
  • Student´s research: prepare a leaflet about a monument of the world where you will include: 
          1º) Name and location (country, capital city of the country and the closest city to the       monument).

          2º) Find interesting information about the monument on the internet and include it just inside your leaflet. You can add pictures and drawings to decorate it.
          3º) Draw a physical world map at the back of your leaflet to locate the monument.
          4º) Locate in this map any important mountains or rivers that are close to this monument.


LESSON 7: Lesson about the main landforms and bodies of water in Europe


           Name and location in Europe.
           Physical map representing its major physical features.
           Pictures and drawings to represent important information about the country.
         


LESSON 8: Spain (physical and political features)


         Start representing in a physical map in your notebook all the different mountains and rivers.
          Then, we will prepare in groups a three-dimensional physical map of Spain using plasticine.
  • Political map: Comunidades Autónomas.
          Puzzle
          ¿Cómo se llama? 
          ¿Dónde está?
       

* Individual Research: Pollution - Protecting our world: 
1º) Is Spain a polluted country? Why?
2º) Are there different types of pollution?
3º) Are some countries trying to reduce pollution?
4º) What can we do to reduce pollution?


LESSON 9: Show and tell presenting to the class our individual or group researches. 


Assessment: using different inputs
  • Tasks: student´s and group researches. 
  • Notebook.
  • Daily observation during the different lessons.
  • Tests: prepare tests similar to this one 

  • Rubrics.








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