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🗺️ Kindergarten · Social StudiesD2.Geo.2.K-2Unit 4: Maps & where I live

Land and water

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🎯 Objective: Students find land and water on a globe.

Lesson outline

  1. Globe toss.
  2. Color a map.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: show water on a globe.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Geo.2.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use position words and simple maps
  • Know their address and that they live in a town, state and country

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Countries🎉 Holidays⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Maps & where I live”

  1. Position words and maps
  2. Land and water
  3. My address

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