1) 5"x7" 18 picture flashcards: direction (West, East, North, South); Compass Rose; latitudes; longitudes; eastern, western, northern, southern hemisphere; Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; South/North Pole; Tropics; Equator; Prime Meridian.
2) 5"x7" 12 definition cards
3) Two A4 tracing cards-tracing longitudes, latitudes, South/North Pole and around the globe. This is an extra activity as Eaton loves tracing dots right now.
4) "Label Me" activity-matching words to pictures activity. I included only 6 things. I don't want to overwhelm Eaton with too many pictures on the graph.
5) "What Am I" file folder game. This book/game activity includes 10 definitions. There is a space in the downloading file so you can create more if you wish. I printed them out on different colors for entertainment purpose only.
Here is the picture of all of the activities
I've already started to teach Eaton about the globe.
1st day: flashcards and 1 definition card that Eaton reads to me and I explain what it is and point it on the picture flashcard.
2nd day: flashcards again with another definition card. Also, I gave Eaton tracing activity card.
Each day I will be showing Eaton more cards and definitions. At the end of two weeks I plan to introduce file folder game. By that time he should know definitions of Equator, Prime Meridian etc. He should also point them on the globe and on the map.
I prepared this activity with a globe in an oval shape because I want Eaton to know other ways to present globe, not only a circle shape. Eaton doesn't mind to switch from one picture to another.
Also, I included Compass Rose with directions as Eaton was asking me: What's that? pointing to the Compass Rose on the map of the World.
Here is Eaton tracing a globe
Finished work looked like this.
Subjects to teach during tracing activity:
- Types of lines: vertical, horizontal, curve, straight.
- Globe terminology: latitudes/longitudes; tropics, hemispheres,north/south pole etc...
- Shape and its size: big, small, smaller oval.
- Graph representation: what does the arrow point to?
- Counting: how many horizontal lines (latitudes); or longitudes lines can you count?
Download files here