Australia and Oceania A-Z Montessori Pack
Australia and Oceania A-Z Montessori Pack
This collection of printable activities can be used to supplement your unit on Australia. It is suitable for PreK-1 but can easily be adapted for 2nd and 3rd grades as well. It features photographs and easy to read font. If you are a Montessori teacher, this will really round out your continent boxes and unit studies!
In all of my Continent A-Z packs, I have tried hard to provide a wide range of representative photographs in order to give students a sense of the luscious, rich diversity of our beautiful planet. In addition, not only do these packs represent the diversity of the continent, but they also represent each letter of the alphabet!
The photos are of things ranging from animals and plants to biomes to clothing and food and sports. I often show iconic things like traditional dancers as well as average day to day things such as treats that children like to eat. I do my best to avoid stereotypical images and try to touch upon many different regions and cultures within the continent.
The activities in this pack are designed to be used by individuals or in small groups. You can use these card materials to introduce the continent/country of Australia to your students and then place them on the shelf or in centers for the children to explore. Montessori classrooms will be familiar with the use of most of these activities such as the 3-part cards and the “parts-of” nomenclature cards.
These printables work particularly well in a writing center. Students can examine the photos and write lists or reports about what they see. Younger students will enjoy matching the photographs and learning new vocabulary. This is also a fantastic pack to add to your letter work. Once a student has learned the vocabulary, have him sort by initial letter/sound.
Contents:
The possibilities for using a pack of this type are endless. Please download the preview to get a detailed look at what is included. The main focus of this pack is on Australia but a few items from surrounding Oceania are also included.
1. Australia A-Z non-fiction book: Photos and short descriptions for things from Australia for each letter of the alphabet (short vowels). This pack does not include a clipart version
2. Australia A-Z Matching Cards: Photographs and one word labels. Print two copies to make 3-part cards or matching cards.
3. Phonetic Reading Sentences:9 phonetically decodable sentences to go with pictures from this continent. The sentences do include a few basic sight words but the majority of the words are decodable and your intermediate readers will have success with these.
4. Living & Non-Living Sorting Cards:Photos of plants, animals, and natural and manmade landmarks from this continent.
5. Plant & Animal Sorting Cards:: Sort photos of plants and animals typically found on this continent.
6. Parts of a Kangaroo: Make a set of 3-part nomenclature cards of the parts of a kangaroo. This also comes with a book describing that various parts as well as a blackline master that can be used to make student booklets. [Also available for free on my blog subscriber page]
7. Biomes of Australia:Photographic 3-part cards of the various climate regions on this continent. [Also available for free on my blog subscriber page]
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Africa A-Z Montessori Pack
Antarctica A-Z Montessori Pack
Asia A-Z Montessori Pack
Australia A-Z Montessori Pack
Europe A-Z Montessori Pack
North America A-Z Montessori Pack
South America A-Z Montessori Pack
