TPACK Template

Subject History and Social Science

Grade Level Second

Learning Objective Geography

The objective of the 2.6 The student will develop map skills by using globes and
lesson is what maps of the world and the United States to locate
students will be able a) the seven continents and the five oceans;
to do as they finish b) the equator, the Prime Meridian, and the four
the activity. For this hemispheres
objective, use the
Standards of
Learning (SOL) to say
what you want to
focus on.
You can find the SOLs
at
http://www.doe.virgi
nia.gov/testing/ look
on the right of the
screen for the
Content

subjects and go from

there.

Activity Describe
what the learning The objective of this lesson is for students to learn and be
activity will be. What familiar with the world map and the location of the continents
will the students and and oceans as well as the four hemispheres and the lines that
the teacher be doing? constitute them. The teacher will introduce the topic by pulling
(This includes what up a large world map using SMART Exchange on the Smartboard
they are doing with with just the continents, oceans, Equator, and the Prime
the technology). Meridian labeled. The teacher will explain what a continent is
and what an ocean is and show the students where they are on
the world map. Once the teacher has modeled locating the
locations of the continents and oceans, the students will then
view the blank map with word bank on the Smartboard.
Pedagogy

Students will then raise their hands to take a turn to go up to the

board and use the pen tool to drag a name to its proper location.
The chosen activity on SMART Exchange then has a couple
 worksheets with a labeled world map that will have the students
list all of the continents and oceans respectively. It will then have
the students color the oceans blue, the continents green, and
draw a red line on the equator and prime meridian. This will also
be done by students raising their hands and taking turns going up
to the board and complete one of the tasks using the pen tool.
The activity also has slides for each continent where the teacher
can introduce some of the countries in each continent. At the
end of the activity is a game where a continent or ocean name is
displayed and the students, using the pen tool, can click on the
smartboard what that continent or ocean is.

Technology SMART Exchange : Continents

The link to the IWB
lesson. Important, http://express.smarttech.com/?url=http://exchangedownloads
provide the link to .smarttech.com/public/content/75/7530037a-d3f6-4e8d-ac43-
the assignment 8f1b3b7cd67d/Hemispheres.notebook#
details, not the link
while it is open in
Technology

SmartExpress.

Before you submit, delete the explanatory text (the text in small italics).