Geography

Megan Bachmann

• Content Area: Social Studies

• Grade Level: 2nd Grade

• Summary: The purpose of this power point is to have the students learn and depict the different continents, hemispheres, and major oceans.

• Learning Objective: Given websites that contain information and pictures on the globe students will need to identify the correct continent, hemisphere, and ocean in the questions within the power point with 100% accuracy.

• Standard: 2.14 construct a globe depicting the four hemispheres, seven continents, and five oceans.

Prime Meridian and Equator:

• The equator is 0 degree latitude. This imaginary line, which runs through parts of South America, Africa, and Asia, is officially the halfway point between the North Pole and the South Pole.

• The prime meridian is 0 degrees longitude. This imaginary line runs through the United Kingdom, France, Spain, western Africa, and Antarctica.

Hemispheres:

• There are four in total.

• Defined as- Either the northern or southern half of the earth as divided by the equator or the eastern or western half as divided by a meridian.

Continents:

• There are seven total

• For the definition click the box-

• They are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.

• Here is a link to a graphic of the globe use it to your benefit! Click this box-

Click on the box below for interactive practice on identifying the different continents:

The Oceans:

• There are five in total.

• They are the Pacific ocean, Atlantic, Indian, Artic, and Southern.

• For more information and fun facts, click the info box below!

Put them all together and…

Question 1: What is an equator?

A. An answer to a math problem

B. An invisible line through the earth

C. This imaginary line, which runs through parts of South America, Africa, and Asia, is officially the

halfway point between the North Pole and the South Pole.

Sorry! Incorrect! Click the box below to return to question 1.

Nope not this answer!

Correct!!Good job!

Question 2: What Continent is this?

A. Africa B. North America

C. Europe

Wrong Answer. Try again!

CORRECT!!

Click Me!

Incorrect..

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Question 3: How many hemispheres are there?

A. Four B. None C. Two

Great Job!!Click Me!

Sorry try again!

Wrong answer.

Quick! Question and answer pairsTake a minute to come up with one question.Then see if you can stump your partner!

In conclusion the students just learned about hemispheres, continents, oceans, and meridian and equator. They can now easily identify all the things listed above.

• Works Cited:https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/http://interactivesites.weebly.com/continents.htmlhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/hemispherehttp://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-166560/Earths-seven-continents-are-Asia-Africa-North-America-South-America

http://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/?rid=8889&ent_l=continenthttp://www.ducksters.com/geography/oceans.phphttp://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/geography/equatorprimemeridian.htm

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