ArtK12 Draw Oceania guides your student as they draw a map of Australia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia on a single sheet of blank paper. Step-by-step instruction is shown in red, moving incrementally through drawing the entire map. Students feel successful! Interesting blurbs add interest and prompt further exploration on the topic. Reproducible templates in the back can get you started. ~Sara
ArtK12: Draw Oceania
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069163
ISBN
9781545527047
Grade 3-8
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Low Teacher Involvement
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Product Overview
- Follow step-by-step instructions to draw your own map
- Use your own blank paper and a pencil, then color it as you like!
- Use the template if you need help getting started
Description
Publisher's Description of ArtK12: Draw Oceania
Island Challenge
The challenge in this book is presenting all the islands in a way that will make it easy for your students to place them in the correct positions. I have settled on two solutions: a unique grid and outlining the group of islands within the grid. This will allow your students to more accurately place the islands based on the outline.
See Any Sea Creatures?
Most of the outlines are based upon sea creatures: hammerhead shark, jelly fish, crab, clams, silver dollars and more. This will give your students a nice device to remember the island groups. Once they have completed their map, they can leave the outlines if they wish or erase them.
Geography Introduction: Here's Why
Drawing a map, like reading, or algebra, is a difficult skill to learn and if one sets an 8-year-old down with a map of the US and says "draw this," the child will be as overwhelmed as if he were confronted with reading Shakespeare before he could read The Cat in the Hat, and will quickly abandon it. Sure, a child could understand and appreciate the story of Hamlet as well as read a map at the age of 8, but if you ask her to READ Hamlet or DRAW a map, that is another story. The intellect of a child far outpaces her skills and if you ask too much too soon from her skills you can forever extinguish a desire for more.
In this series of books I simply want to introduce children to geography by giving them a primer in the borders and locations of states, provinces and countries. By doing so I hope to invite them further into the beautifully complicated world of geography.
Are these drawings cartoons? Absolutely they are, and in the best sense of that word. The word "cartoon" originated in the Middle ages and meant what we would today call a "sketch," something that the artist drew as he thought out, or prepared to draw his masterpiece. By engaging students in drawing "cartoon" maps I hope to give them enough self-confidence to someday give the real thing a try.
Geography is essential to a child’s education. And basic to that study is a simple outline of states, countries and continents. In Draw Oceania I have tried to give students an easy introduction to committing the map of the Oceania to memory. Through simple, step-by-step instructions, students learn to draw the countries and islands and, with a little practice, will be able to draw Oceania as a whole.
Category Description for ArtK12 Draw the World Series
ArtK12 Draw the World Series offers a hands-on geography learning experience for students with variable drawing abilities. Every page walks you through drawing one portion of a complete map. You will use your own blank paper and pencil for this part. Shapes are not too precise. An older student can follow an atlas or map reference to add more detail if they wish, while a younger child can focus on more basic outlines of states and countries.
Digital templates are free from the publisher’s website for many of the books. Some have reproducible templates in the back of the book. A child who is not confident diving right in can use these to get started, following the instructions from that point. Others will simply begin and go! You will only need 1 or 2 pieces of paper per student to create these maps. Each drawing step is in red, either dots or lines. When finished, outline your entire map with a marker and have fun coloring it in!
Read the informational blurbs and discuss as you draw. Maybe look up a particular feature and learn more details! Refer to an actual map and look at what surrounds your map. Is it land or ocean? Mountains or plains? Do you know about the animals and people who live there?
Add an ArtK12 book to a unit study about an animal’s habitat, a part of history, or your geography lesson. Your kids will remember the process as much as the product. Maps can be abstract for some learners. Drawing a map themselves is an accomplishment and makes world geography more relatable. Because you are not writing directly in the books, you can keep them for more students to use.
You could finish your map in one sitting, or stretch it out, taking a deeper dive as you go. Draw the World comes with flexibility to make it fit your learners. FYI – the various maps are not in scale to create a large world map. ~Sara
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 3-8 |
| Brand: | ArtK12 |
| ISBN: | 9781545527047 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.1875 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.5 |
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