Young children don’t naturally have an understanding of the great wide world outside of their own context – they live within the confines of home, family, school (and wherever else they spend the majority of their time). The Continent Globe lesson is how children start to learn where they exist in the world in relation…
A continents globe, map, apple and knife – that’s what you’ll need to teach your child not only the locations of the continents and their names but also, how the spherical shape of the earth translates onto a 2-Dimensional map.
In a Montessori classroom, we’d use a special continents globe whereby each continent is a particular…