Geography

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• The Usborne Children's Picture Atlas by Ruth Brocklehurst, Linda Edwards

Lesson 1

• The Armadillo from Amarillo by Lynne Cherry

Lesson 7

• The Seven Continents by Wil Mara

Materials

Common Materials

• crayons, colored pencils, or markers
• scissors
• glue
• poster board
• variety of maps
• construction paper
• tape or glue
• cotton balls
• bark or small pieces of wood
• black marker
• books about the geography of a continent

Lesson 1

• map of your state
• ruler

Lesson 2

• tape
• three or four objects to hide around the yard
• cardstock

Lesson 3

• clay

Lesson 4

• chocolate chips
• 2-3 small jingle bells
• fruit
• salt
• orange peel
• honey
• licorice
• peanuts
• piece of cereal
• pine needles or leaves
• popcorn kernels

Lesson 6

• globe or picture of a globe
• flat metal washer, the same circumference as the mouth of the bottles
• 2 plastic soda bottles (1 liter or 2 liter)
• food coloring
• duct tape

Lesson 7

• flashlight
• blue paint
• flour
• green pencil or marker
• medium-sized round balloon
• paintbrush
• strips of white paper

Lesson 8

• styrofoam egg carton
• spelling journal
• trash bag
• yellow food coloring* (8.3 - chicks)
• green pipe cleaners* (8.3 - flowers)
• green or orange construction paper

Final Project

• costume
• props

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used