Right before the holidays and our poetry reading party, we finished our world history chapter on Oceania and Australia.
And I had another idea . . . .
I bought remnants of tablecloth plastic stuff for 1/2 off.
The students were put into groups of four and given a map.
They had to draw their assigned continent or island to scale (1 cm x 1.5 = number of feet) on the tablecloth stuff and cut it out. (We did Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tasmania, the Cook Islands where Captain Cook explored and Kon-Tiki landed, the Hawaiian islands, the Solomon Islands, and Antarctica.)
Then we played the game "four corners" with each student choosing an island or a continent to stand on instead of a corner.
We learned geography, practiced our math skills, and had fun doing both.
