Playdough Geography!

I’ve taught this lesson a few times now and it gets better each time! To help the children learn all about the continents and oceans of the world, I teach the children some simple continent and ocean songs (easily found on youtube) and we look at google maps, labelling the continents and oceans using post-it notes on the IWB.

Then after putting the kids into groups, I give them a few pots of playdough to help them re-create the continents and oceans themselves! Of course the hcildren have atlases to help them and they have a sheet of A3 paper to give them some scale and allow them to label everything correctly.

The children LOVE using playdough. It’s a very tactile way of forming each continent and ideally having enough playdough so that each continent is a different colour would also help the children remember them. My year 2/3 class loved doing this the other week, so much so that when we came to learning about the countries and captials of the UK, we used playdough to help us learn those as well!