👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Distinguish a globe from a flat map and identify continents and oceans.

Vocabulary
globe, continent, ocean

Suggested time
30-40 minutes, with optional practice across the week.

Teaching Notes

• Model one question by naming the relevant row, label, or statement. Have students explain the evidence for a second answer before working independently.
• Introduce the study resource before assigning questions. Students can answer using this lesson without opening the source book.
• Use questions 1-4 for guided practice and the remaining questions for independent practice or discussion. Open responses may use different wording if the evidence supports them.
• Check the activity against its stated constraints and the answer bank. Revisit a missed concept before adding a new one.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

A globe is a round model of Earth. A world map shows Earth on a flat surface. Both can show land and water. This course uses seven continents and five oceans. The oceans connect to form one world ocean. A small globe cannot show every street or building. Flattening a round surface changes some shapes, sizes, distances, or directions. A globe helps you check relationships that may look unusual near the edges of a world map. Turning a globe reveals places that were on the far side. One view cannot show the whole surface.

Study Resource: Land and Water Names

Antarctica surrounds the South Pole. The Southern Ocean surrounds Antarctica.

Vocabulary and Definition

• - a round model of Earth
• - one of Earth's largest land areas
• - a very large connected body of salt water

Words to Learn

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Sentences to Fill In

1. The term for a round model of Earth is .
2. The term for one of Earth's largest land areas is .
3. The term for a very large connected body of salt water is .

🧪 Think & Respond Q&A

1. What shape is a globe?

2. What does a globe model?

3. How many continents are listed in this lesson?

4. How many oceans are listed in this lesson?

5. Why might a continent look different near the edge of a flat world map?

6. Is the Indian Ocean land or water?

7. Name the continent surrounding the South Pole.

8. Why can a classroom globe not show every street?

9. Why might two globe pictures show different continents?

10. Which ocean surrounds Antarctica?

11. Which lesson word means "a round model of Earth"?

12. Which lesson word means "one of Earth's largest land areas"?

13. Which lesson word means "a very large connected body of salt water"?

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need: Paper and two colors.

What You Do:

1. Make two lists: continents and oceans. Add every name from the table. Draw a circle for a globe and explain why your drawing only shows one view.
2. Check that no continent was sorted as an ocean.
3. Revise one part of your work after checking it against the lesson evidence.

Think and Talk: What evidence supports one choice in your work?

Reflection

• Which idea can you explain now?
• What would you still need to learn about a real place?

Teacher Check

Check accurate use of the study resource, correct vocabulary or units, and a reason supported by evidence. For open activities, accept more than one result when it follows the instructions. The companion CSV contains the same numbered Q&A bank shown above.

Curriculum Reference

Scope alignment: Evan-Moor, Daily Geography Practice, Grade 3, Week 1. Teacher lesson begins on printed page 6 (PDF page 8). The explanations, practice data, diagrams, activities, and questions in this lesson are original. Fictional datasets are labeled in their study resources.