Map Hunt

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Geographical Skills - Mini topic Building Skills in Geography

Objectives

Geography

  • Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the countries, continents and oceans studied at this key stage
  • Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans.

Enrichment Activities

  • Music: Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
  • Science: Identify and name a variety of common animals.
  • Art & Design: Use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination; Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
  • D&T: Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.
  • English: Write poetry.

Lesson Planning

Take part in a world-wide mapping scavenger hunt to ‘collect’ a series of countries, continents and oceans. Can you use maps, atlases and globes to solve the clues and find your allocated locations?

Teaching Outcomes

  • To find and mark on a world map the seven continents and five oceans.
  • To use maps, atlases and globes to locate countries based on geographical clues.

Children will

  • Identify and locate a series of countries, continents and oceans across the wider world using atlases.
  • Understand and apply the mapping skills involved in using maps, atlases and globes.

Enrichment Activities

  • Compose ocean inspired music.
  • Paint an animal from each continent.
  • Create a city guide for a capital city.
  • Compose a riddle based on the characteristics of a European country.

You Will Need

  • Coloured envelopes
  • Globes, maps & atlases
  • Coloured pens/pencils.

You will need additional resources for the Enrichment Activities.

Weblinks

Continents quiz from world-geography-games.com
Oceans quiz from world-geography-games.com

There are additional weblinks for the Enrichment Activities.