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Trip
Around the World
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Introduction:
You are about to
embark on a fantastic journey around the world. You will make a stop
at each of the seven continents. At your first location, you will
board an airplane, buckle your seat belts and enjoy an inflight movie
about the upcoming country. Once there, several fun activities will
keep your interest. You'll collect souvenires and don't forget to
have your passport stamped when departing each country.
Process:
- A general announcement will be made
on the television welcoming you to the Trip Around the
World.
- Starting at your first location,
have a seat on the plane and buckle your seat belts. Listen to the
flight attendant.
- You will enjoy an inflight movie
about the continent you are travelling to. The flight attendant
will guide you through the movie as a group, asking you questions
along the way.
- Once you have arrived, the flight
attendants will welcome you to the continent and offer two
activities for your enjoyment. One will be a craft and the other
will be either a song/rap or a movement activity.
- Upon completion, place your craft
in your carry on luggage.
- When it is time to leave, make sure
you have your passport stamped.
- Proceed on to the next destination
with your class.
- Rotate through all seven continents
as a class. Follow the schedule.
Assessment:
SOL
tests!!
Teacher
section: The day started out with
an announcement for third grade classes on the television, following
the daily news show. The principal was dressed as a flight attendant
and welcomed students on a Trip Around the World. Then a tape of the
music teacher and a class singing the Continent song was played.
Kings Park has seven third grade classrooms. Each classroom was set
up as a plane trip to one of the seven continents. While there, the
travelers enjoyed an inflight movie (PowerPoint presentation)
featuring SOL essential knowledge that pertained to that continent.
It might be related to geography (Equator, Prime Meridian or oceans.)
It might have something to do with explorers or Native Americans. Or
topics might include science understandings such as migration,
adaptation, magnets (Poles), weather, natural disasters, resources.
Economics, architecture, government and famous Americans were also
covered. The passport included items covered in the PowerPoint
presentations. After the presentation, parent volunteers guided
students through two activities. One was a craft and the other was
either a movement or musical.
This unit was the inspiration of a
third grade parent. The design was constructed by a third grade
teacher, School-Based Technology Specialist, and the parent
volunteer. Each classroom teacher was offered a template for the PPT,
appropriate images and a sheet of essential knowledge correlated to
the continent.The third grade teachers then created their PowerPoint
presentations and came up with the activities for each continent.
Music and Physical Education teachers
were called in to coordinate a movement or music activity for each
continent. Parent volunteers ran each classroom (PowerPoint
presentation, art, music or movement activity.) They also were
instrumental in preparing supplies (passports, seat belts, cutting
paper) for the activities. Classroom teachers followed their classes
from continent to continent.
A field trip lunch was prepared by the
cafeteria for those that didn't bring their own lunches.
The schedule included all seven
continents in one day but the homeroom was left for last and could be
done on an alternate day.
A parent volunteer tried to secure bags
from a travel agent but had no luck. Instead she created "carry on
luggage" by stencilling bags for each child. We also ordered compass
rings for each student from Oriental Trading Company.
Please free to use these resources or
edit them to fit your purposes.
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Continent
Activities:
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Africa
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Name scrolls with hieroglypics
(Egypt)
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Kings Tut Rap
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Antarctica
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Food chains
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Movement tour of the
continent. Walk like a penguin with an egg on its feet (used
stuffed stockings sewn like an egg.)
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Asia
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Lanterns
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Movement tour featuring
climbing the Great Wall of China, canoing on the Yellow and
Yangtze Rivers, bartering for goods and participating in a
lion dance on Chinese New Year. This tour featured large
wall murals shown via an overhead projector.
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Australia
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Marking the equator and
Australia on a map with glitter glue.
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Singing Clementine,
Kookaburra
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Europe
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Mobile with Greek, Roman and
Explorer facts.
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Song about ancient
Rome
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North America
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Canoe with a bag of unpopped
popcorn and Native American popcorn facts.
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Famous American
song
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South America
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Butterfly migration movement
activity and labeling parts of the rainforest and placing
animals in the correct layer.
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Origami frog
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To see pictures from the unit,
click on the plane.
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Unit designed by
Michelle
Crabill and
Brooks
Widmaier from an idea
inspired by Karen Clemens (parent volunteer)
Page created by Brooks
Widmaier
May 11, 2002
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