Continents on the Globe

Find each continent on a world map.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 9

A globe shows one side of Earth at a time. Turn it to find North America and South America.
Turn the globe east, and you find Europe and Africa. Europe is north of Africa.
Keep turning east to find Asia, the biggest continent. Australia is south of Asia.
Antarctica is at the bottom of the globe, all around the South Pole.
A flat map shows every continent at once. North is up: Africa is south of Europe, and Asia is east of Europe.
Try it with a grown-up! Spin a globe, close your eyes, and stop it with your finger. Which continent did you land on? Or did you land in the ocean?

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS1G3.a — Locate all of the continents: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, and Australia.
MGS.1 — Map and Globe Skill 1: use a compass rose to identify cardinal directions (mastered in Grade 1)