Are you ever curious about the planet where your children are? Are you often yelling, "Earth to Susie! Please!" Are Johnny’s antics sometimes shaking you to the core
Perhaps it is time to give your kindergarteners some geography activities. These activities will not only distract them from their normal chaos but also help them to understand the space that they share in this world.
This list includes all aspects of the land we live in. It includes the mountains, the prairies, the oceans and many other issues. These geography project ideas will allow you to explore Planet Earth together.
1. Everywhere
Grab large sheets and lots of pencils, stickers, markers, and pencils. Explain the concept of a map. Draw a map with your child of at least two rooms in your home. Pick rooms that your child is most likely to use, such as the bedroom or kitchen.
Your child can add stickers or drawings to furniture after you have drawn walls, windows, doors and windows. No furniture is allowed to be added by a sibling newborn.
Draw a map showing the streets of your neighborhood. Then, show him the address of his house and ask him to draw it on a map. Your little one will love to see landmarks.
Compare your map with the outside world. You could walk around and draw a line on your map to indicate your route. You can even scatter breadcrumbs along the way.
Follow your breadcrumbs or map home. Add items to the map you don’t know about. The map can be saved for future activities. It will be useful for Activity number 4 below.
2. Land, water, or air
Three small glass jars are needed. Place potting soil into jar #1. Add water and some blue food coloring to jar #2. Leave jar #3 empty. Label jars #1 and #2 with the appropriate names.
You can borrow, borrow, and steal magazines. This activity is best done with travel magazines. Cosmopolitan & National Geographic are best, unless the teacher wants to learn more about human anatomy.
If you are serious about your life, give your little angel scissors and ask her for pictures of land, water bodies and sky.
Place an empty bag in front each jar. Assign the pictures to the right jars.
Explain that the earth is mostly composed of water and seven great lands known as continents. The atmosphere surrounds it. Stress the importance of maintaining clean air, water, land, and atmosphere.
You can also do this activity with photos of birds, sea animals, land animals and people.
3. Going green, brown, and blue
You can find a topographic map for your country online that shows the land mass, mountains, and water bodies in green. It can be printed using a color printing machine.
Tape the map face-up inside a slightly larger glass pie plate. Help your child to apply green clay to the top and shape the country.
After that, have him add yellow or brown clay to make mountains. He will pinch it and press it into peaks. You can make major rivers or lakes with a pencil, spoon, or pen.
To make the oceans, lakes, rivers and other natural phenomena, add water to the dish. Use a toothpick flag and paper to make a flag. Then, place it on your map. You can repeat this activity with other countries.
4. Pole-to-pole, a journey from one end of the Earth to the other.
Buy a globe for your child and let her know where it is. Point out the south and north poles. For activity number 1, draw a little compass rose. It is that small design that shows north/south on maps.
Just draw a compass symbol on a piece of blank paper, in case your dog ate the neighborhood map.
Purchase a compass. Explain how the compass works. It is not a complicated system. When she is in first grade, your child will tell you how it works.
5. Compass Time
Print the letters N through S on poster board. Or buy them online. You can make them any size you like, but the larger the better to cover those jelly stains and fingerprints stuck to the walls of your child’s bedrooms.
The letters can be painted with the kindergartener’s favorite colour (but not in a way that is too bright or distracting from the jelly stains).
Attach items to the letters indicating the country’s northern, southern and eastern parts. For example, photos of surfers or Disneyland could be used. (It is not possible to steal plates.
Hang the letters on his wall (N on north wall, S south wall). Use your compass to help him navigate in his own room. Or, you could buy him one!
6. Sunrise and Sunset
Make the globe spin by getting out your globe. It’s amazing what you can do with a globe. It’s a great way to dream about places you want to go. Shine a flashlight onto the earth. Explain that the earth revolves around its sun and it rotates on its own axis.
Start the day early, but not on weekends. Get your compasses out and wait for it to rise. Your compasses will help you ensure that the sun rises in the east. If everything is fine, you can go to breakfast since you are up.
7. This Land is Your Land. It’s in their hands
You can help your toddler gain a global view by giving them hands-on resources. There’s no age limit for maps, atlases, and books. Include information about cultural geography like languages, customs, foods.
8. Where is the World’s Best?
Use alternating paper colors to cut 8 circles of varying sizes. Each circle should be labeled at the bottom with the following:
- My Planet (8") — This one could be a piece of paper.
- My Continent (7")
- The nation I come from is a great place, filled with beauty and culture. It has a rich history, with a lot of natural wonders to explore. From the mountains to the oceans, there is something for everyone. I’m proud to call this my home.
- My State (Province, Territory, etc.) (5")
- The town I call home is a great place to live. It’s a vibrant community filled with culture and opportunity. There are plenty of activities to do and lots of people to meet. The city has something for everyone, and I’m proud to call it my home.
- The street I live on (3")
- The place I live in (2")
- I (1")
Take small photographs or photos of your child’s home, streets, cities, states, countries, continents, and planets. Your child should be free from any troubles or daydreams and call him to give you the smallest circle.
Let him glue his photo to it. Continue to help him by gluing on circles that are successively larger until each circle has the same picture. If he wants, he may draw his own images.
Place the circles one on top of the other. The largest circle should be at the bottom. Use a paper fastener to clip the circles together.
9. Placemats
Create placemats together with your child. These placemats can be used during mealtime. You can hand these to your hungry monster while you wait for dinner.
10. International sizes
The wall can be used to hang a large globe map. A wall can be used, but the map should be hung high enough to allow your child to see all countries. This serves as a barrier and hides splattered ketchup or scuff marks (and pet stains if they reach the wall).
You can show your child the different continents and countries shown on the map. Talk about geography in your daily conversations. They are found in different parts.
If the terrain is getting too rough around your home, you can introduce the kindergarten geography activities below to help your child see the positive side of the world.
After teaching geography to your kids with these activities, you might be singing "This Land Is Your Land", "I Feel the Earth Move", or your national anthem.
Phil Spector’s "To Know You is To Love You" might be a more fitting song. That’s because this is what happens when children learn about Planet Earth. They will learn more about the planet and how to care for it. That’s something that is worth learning.
