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
• poster board
• construction paper (kit)
• glue
• world map (kit)
• tape or glue
• cotton balls (kit)
• bark or small pieces of wood
• black marker
• books about the geography of a continent

Lesson 1

• variety of maps
• ruler (kit)
• map of your state

Lesson 2

• "Reading a Compass" page (kit)
• tape
• three or four objects to hide around the yard

Lesson 3

• clay (kit)

Lesson 4

• chocolate chips
• orange peel
• fruit
• honey
• licorice
• salt
• small jingle bells (kit)
• peanuts
• piece of cereal
• pine needles or leaves
• popcorn kernels

Lesson 6

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

Lesson 7

• flashlight
• blank paper (kit)
• flour
• green pencil or marker
• paint (kit)
• paintbrush (kit)
• round balloon (kit)

Lesson 8

• green pipe cleaners (kit)
• Spelling Journal (kit)
• styrofoam egg carton
• trash bag
• yellow food coloring (kit)

Final Project

• props
• costume

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