Continents

Have you heard that Room 221 is traveling the globe? We have been learning interesting facts about each continent.

Thanks to an NEF Grant, third grade teachers created a bag for each continent filled with different objects. Each object represents a fact about a continent. First, the third grade learners were given the opportunity to explore the objects and use their background knowledge to "guess" what fact might be true about the continent. For example, in the Asia bag there is a small wheel. Many children guessed that wheels are made in Asia.

After children have had a chance to explore, we learn the true information about the continents. The children see photographs and facts for each object. For example, third graders learned that the wheel was actually invented long ago in Asia.

Ask your child what interesting information they have learned as we've traveled the world!