Interesting facts about Continents and Oceans

THE 7 CONTINENTS AND THE 5 OCEANS

Geography, as a branch of Social Sciences, is the study of Earth's landscapes, people, places and environments. As a content for 6th grade of primary education, students need to take a look to the following concepts related to continents and oceans.

Our earth is made up of large land masses known as continents and water bodies known as oceans. The earth has not been like this always as how we see it now. Millions of years before there were only one large land mass and a large ocean surrounding it. Later on the land mass started to split and drift apart surrounded by ocean on all sides. This process is still going on. Now we have 7 continents and 5 oceans which are home to all of us and millions of other living organisms. Let us learn about each of these seven continents and five oceans that make up our planet earth.

CONTENT

Continent, this term is used to differentiate between the various large areas of the earth into which all the land surface of Earth is divided. So, a continent is a large, continuous area of land on Earth. Actually, all continents together constitute less than one-third of the earth's surface; in fact,  more than two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered by water. Two-thirds of the continental land mass is located in the Northern Hemisphere (the upper half of the globe, north of the equator). These masses of land  are  named  Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia, listed in order of size. (Europe and Asia are sometimes considered a single continent, Eurasia.)

Oceans, are continuous body of salt water that is contained in enormous basins on Earth's surface. The surface of the planet is approximately 71% water and contains 5 oceans, including the Artic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern. 
 For many years only 4 oceans were officially recognized, and then in the spring of 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization established the Southern Ocean, and determined its limits. Those limits include all water below 60 degrees south, and some of it, like the Arctic Ocean, is frozen.
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Since the present days are highly dynamic and rapidly changing, as well teaching and learning of foreing languages would necessary adapt to these changes, in this case, content and language integrated learning has become the trendy approach of bilingual education since CLIL is a tool that promotes learning understanding through the implementation of authenticity, active learning and scaffolding.

ACTIVITY

A paper mache globe.

We are going to form 5 groups of 3 students. One student is going to present the group and also the vocabulary (the words that they have encountered more relevant). the other students are going to explain contents using the Globe they have made (one student the continents and the other the oceans).

 This is a fun and educational way to teach kids about the continents and oceans. This project takes a few days and is great for kids of six years old and up.  

• MATERIALS:
• 1. Round balloon
• 2. Newspaper
• 3. paper mache paste
• 4. Acrylic paint
• 5. brushes

        INSTRUCTIONS:

Blow up and tie the balloon. Set it on the top af a bowl before to stick the paper.Cover the whole balloon with glue and stick the paper mache all around the balloon in several layers. Leave the balloon to get dry for 2 days before you paint it. Once the paper mache is dry, paint your balloon to look like a real globe using blue, green and even white paint.

Add as much or as little detail as you like.