Ideas on How to Introduce Land and Water Forms to Kids
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The Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic Unit) for Gradeschoolers
Saturday, January 9, 2016
January is usually the best time to have winter themed activities or do either Antarctica or Arctic activities. It is the time when kids can envision these frozen part of the planet due to the cold/extreme weather. To start with, I've setup an invitation to play tray in our shelf and displayed books to go along with it. These can be accessed by the boys whenever they want to and they are not age specific, big boys and little brothers can share and play with the tray!
Landforms of the Arctic and Antarctic Regions
Thursday, January 7, 2016
The Glorious Flight {FIAR}
Thursday, April 9, 2015
We love this book! I mean it. It’s funny yet full of lessons from history. It teaches the reader of never giving up, of persistence and following dreams. And did you know that this book is based on a true story of Louis Bleriot, the first person to fly an airplane in the English Channel.
This is one book that I highly recommend reading when studying airplanes! And you get to study history as well :)
Geography
Now the setting of the story is in France. So we spot France in our Montessori Europe Puzzle Map and identify the English Channel where Louis Bleriot flew.
in addition, we check out landforms as well, as Mavi was asking me “Mommy, what is a channel?”
Since it is in France, Mavi made the flag of France. I was surprise he still remembers the colours.
And of course, the exciting part was creating the English Channel using our coloured rice, Europe Pin Flags and Learning Resources Transportation counters.
Math
The book was using Roman Numerals so we made Roman Numerals for each Montessori Number Cards. This was a huge hit! I even learned from this… the Roman Numerals of thousands!
Science
We studied Airplanes! Here are the books we used:
They were all helpful! The only thing that we didn’t do was to have an experiment on flying. Oh well, maybe next time.
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Mavi loves to read and match the parts. I have yet to create definition booklet for this. But Mavi knew all the functions of each parts by heart so he was discussing it to me while doing the work.
History
We created a timeline for the airplane. Starting from the discovery of the Wright brothers up to the very present of airliners (this was Mavi’s idea).
And that’s about it! We have a fruitful week for this! I didn’t know that rowing FIAR books could be this exciting and fun!
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Montessori Landforms Cards
Monday, March 30, 2015
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Here’s my presentation of the landform cards. Although this was not the first time Mavi encountered the cards, he was more than excited to use our new Montessori materials because this time, it has textures! Plus, it helped that we have this Learning Resources Transportation counters to use with our cards! You can get this from any Montessori shop or from Amazon. (Mine is from Tower High learning)
If you want you want to see our introduction to landforms, read it here.I created the description cards that you see in the photo. I love doing this and let Mavi read :) It is my way of letting him practice reading, not just in books.
Now the transportation counters helped a LOT in my presentation. It helped me demonstrate where’s the land and water in the cards. Such a perfect tool for visual presentation!
And they are so cute! They’re really worth-it! So here are my additional materials to help me with the topic.
Here’s the 6 landform materials (out of 8). Aren’t they so beautiful?
We’ll do more of this in the coming weeks as we explore countries and continents via Five in a Row. Hope you like this post!
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Monday, November 24, 2014
- Difference between the salt water and fresh water
- Discovering the properties of salt water
- Looking into Oceans, Sea and Lakes
Salt Water vs.. Fresh Water
Majority of the Earth’s water is in the oceans but the water here is not pure. Ocean water contains components and elements that have been dissolved in the water through time (water eroded the Earth’s surface).
From here, I started to discussing why water in the ocean is called salty water and those in the lakes are called fresh water. Note that the term “fresh water” can be misunderstood. Water in the ocean is not good for humans as it is salty. Too much salt in our body is not good because the body cannot take it out. Same thing as water in the lake, though it may be called “fresh” or may look clear, it may still have something in it that can be dangerous to our body.
Seen below is our “salty” water mixture. It’s made up of clean warm water, plenty of salt and a blue food colouring for the ocean effect.
Create a salty water mixture as mentioned above and let them taste the salty water and the freshwater for comparison.
Properties of Salt Water (Ocean)
Around 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by seawater (water, salt, and other substances and gases). Seawater is more dense, meaning if you mix salt and fresh water without mixing, the salt water will stay UNDER the fresh water. Other amazing facts about sea water includes:
- Easier to swim in salt water because it helps to keep our bodies higher in the water.
- It needs more heat to boil and more cold to freeze
To demonstrate this, we conducted a few experiments to see first hand the properties of salt water and fresh water. Click on the image below to see our experiments!
Investigating Oceans, Sea and Lakes
Using our printed and painted map, we identified four major ocean bodies: Indian Ocean, Atlantic ocean, Pacific Ocean and Arctic ocean.
Also, we revisited our study of organisms that live in salt water and the fresh water and a refresher of our landforms (an island is part of the Earth, it doesn’t float in the water LOL).
Animals in the freshwater ecosystem: lakes, ponds and streams. Animals in the marine ecosystem which includes the seashore, temperate and tropical oceans.
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Introducing Landforms
Saturday, July 19, 2014
I’ve been wanting to introduce this topic for the longest time but I couldn’t find the right timing. You see I don’t follow any curriculum. I based my lessons and activities on Mavi’s interest and he hasn’t shown any interest in landforms ever since. (We previously had Island and Lake in our lesson but that was it)
Now when we went to the mountain fun park last weekend, the view during our hour-long drive was breathtaking! We saw beautiful hills, lakes, meadows, rivers and waterfalls! Since then Mavi has been asking me a lot of questions about certain things like what’s the difference between rivers and streams? What is a bay? How does volcano loon like?
So after the trip I decided to create materials to discuss his concerns while his memories and excitement are still fresh.
Now first thing, the landform cards. You can get these for free from here. Aside from these, Mavi and I made another version using a blue cardstock and a brown paper bag. He enjoyed shaping the lands by tearing the brown paper instead of using scissors. In effect, the tearing was more appealing than having a straight cut. This is an enjoyable activity you can do with your little ones. They would love tearing the papers and at the same time talking about the landforms they’re making!
Can you see my little baby’s hand? He’s trying to reach out as I take a photo! Someone other than Mavi is interested in landforms as well!
The picture above is Mavi working on the cards. He’s matching them while memorizing the names of the landforms. Now this time, it’s not Vito’s hand appearing in the picture. It’s his foot! Now this baby is truly present in every activity of his big brother LOL.
Next, I have to show Mavi what does these landforms really looks like in the map. And the best material for this is the Philippine map wherein our home country is made of thousands of islands and rich in different landforms.
So as you can see below, we’re looking at the cards and search the actual landform in the map. We were able to identify a number of bays, islands, lakes… we spot an archipelago, isthmus, gulf and peninsula.
And the last activity we did was to create our very own landscape with landforms. What I did here was create a map using craft papers (blue and green), then laminate it. From there, we covered the green area with green playdough and identify the landforms present. I let Mavi add some details like his animal figures and Lego.
The laminated the craft paper so the dough won’t stick. wish we had a much bigger laminate so we can have a bigger landscape.
Can you name the landforms in the landscape?
We’re supposed to look photos of land and water features but we decided to go out of the house again.
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Lakes and Islands
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
We started looking into landforms. And this work is very much inspired my The Adventures of Bear. The landforms cards were downloaded from Montessori Materials and they are for free!
Now to make my landforms, I used plasticine... filled it with water and added the sailboat as seen on the post of Julie. My son totally loved it! We’ll delve into these land and water forms once he gets a hang of it. For now he’s busy playing with the water and the boats :)
Happy learning and playing!
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