Montessori Geography Activities (Free Montessori World Map)

FREE Montessori World Pin Map Printable

You can make your own Montessori Style World Pin Map with this free printable!

While my older kids were learning a lot about the location of the specific countries of Africa, my preschooler was working on world geography again.  I thought I’d share some of the activities ED has been doing the past week or two.

As always, we started out by singing the continent song. It’s to the tune of Frère Jacques:

Click here to hear the kids sing this the Seven Continents Song on You Tube and to see what we do with the pin map.

While we sing the song, the kids always point to the continents on a Montessori world map. (What makes it Montessori is the specific colors used for each continent.)

Then, they place the continent label onto the correct spots on the world map.  If the child needs it, there’s a control map so she can compare the labels with the words on the map.

I made this pin map years ago and we have used it so, so much!! But when I went to link to the website where I got our map, the link no longer worked. 🙁  So… it’s not perfect, but I made a Montessori world map that you can download for free.

There are two to choose from… one has country borders, the other doesn’t. Also I included the continent song so you can print it out if you want it.

Click here to download our free Montessori Style World Map Packet:

Click here to save this on Pinterest:

The map above is still free, but I was never that happy about the quality.  I wanted to let you know that I added about 25 pages of Montessori world map activities to the Where I Live Activity Packet: My galaxy, solar system, planet, continent, country, state, town, and home! 

This new section includes a number of Montessori World Map Activities. Not only does it include world pin map templates, but also a number of worksheets, Montessori 3-part continent cards (in color and in black & white), tracing activities, matching pages and more.

You can see more about the Where I Live Packet and these new materials at this post: Montessori World Map Activities

From there we went on to study World Animals

World Animals Packet: (Click here or scroll on down to find out more)

 

  $4.99  World Animals Unit (60+ pages) Animals of the 7 Continents: Montessori 3-part cards and Activity Pages, best for ages 3-7 or so. Also in the World Animals Unit is the mini-unit on Animals of the African Savanna  Quick Preview or view image 1, view image 2, view image 3 (African Animals) The World Animals Unit above is sold separately but is included in our Big Animal BUNDLE!

As we talked about the 7 continents, we did a study of the World Animals. As we sang our song about the 7-continents, the kids would put down animal cards on each of the continents:

There are other fun activities for learning about the 7 continents as well. These include matching and tracing pages as well as fun facts tracing pages for animals of each of the 7 continents.

The World Animals Packet includes 1) Montessori 3-part cards 2) matching & tracing pages, 3) fun-fact tracing pages, 4) do-a-dot pages,  5) outline maps for each continent and a cut-and-paste activity 6) World Animals Board Game 7) World Animals Pin Map activity. It also includes satellite images of the 7 continents. 8) NEW! a new section on Animals of the African Savanna which brings the World Animals Packet to over 100 pages!

Here is a screen shot of the fun World Animals Game! (Be the first player to fill your player card by collecting an animal from every continent!)And a printable for making your own World Animals Pin Map (and instructions on how I put mine together!!)Here is a picture of my daughter using this material…. She was matching the word to the word & picture. Here she is placing the animal cards onto the correct continent And here are the cards with the continent maps (She often sang the 7 continents song while she did this activity): Also in the picture is the  Montessori-style 7 continents pin map (I have a free printable pin map here.

Also in the World Animals Packet is this game and pin map activity:

As I mentioned above, I recently added this section on the Animals of the African Savanna to the World Animals Packet:

The World Animals Packet is now included in the new Big Animal Bundle. Be sure to check that out here (or below)! It includes 5 pdfs. See any of the links below or Our Store or click on the Quick Preview links below for details!

Quick Previews

• Animal Packet Quick Preview
• World Animal Packet Quick Preview
• Rainforest Packet Quick Preview
• Life Cycle Packet Quick Preview
• Winter Packet and Hibernation Unit Quick Preview

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You can purchase the World Animals Packet with the buttons below:

$4.99 (World Animal Unit ONLY, if you want the bundle with our Animal Packet or the entire Big Animal BUNDLE scroll down below.)

World Animals Quick Preview

$4.99

Don’t forget to check your PayPal email address for the download link!

  $4.99 World Animals Unit (You can use the “Add to Cart” button if you are interested in adding in any of our other units, like the biology unit (which covers the world biomes), rainforest unit, etc. I talk a little bit about those down below, or you can visit Our Store for an even more comprehensive list!)

Be sure to check out the Animal BUNDLE Options below:

$10.00 BUNDLE OPTION: Animal Unit and World Animal Unit

$19.99 Big Animal BUNDLE 

These packets are also sold separately:

  $5.99  Animal Unit (100+ pages) – This unit covers animal characteristics, Feather, fur or scales?,  animal classification (the animal kingdoms, vertebrates and invertebrate groups), insects vs. spiders, animal tracks, animals homes and shelters, nocturnal vs. diurnal animals and more! Quick Preview or More details here or view image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5, image 6, image 7, image 8, image 9, image 10, image 11

What is included in the Animal Packet? (Click here for even more information about our Animal Packet.)

• Animal Body Coverings – feathers, fur, scales, skin
• Types of Animals and Animal Characteristics – In this section, we go over some of the traits common to mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish (ie. having a backbone, being warm (or cold) blooded, feeding their young with milk, laying eggs… etc. etc.)
• Types of Animal cut-and-paste activity (below)
• “What Am I?” Identify worksheet
• Types of Animals – Exceptions! — Did you know that the platypus is a mammal that lays eggs?  This notebook page talks about some exceptions to traits discussed above
• Insects vs. spiders

• Invertebrate groups — and their characteristics (legs, no legs, antenna or no antenna, etc.)
• Animal and their Tracks – Montessori 3-part cards (which you can use to play a “Memory Game” – placing all the cards face down and trying to pick out matches); also animal and their tracks matching pages
• Wild vs. Domesticated Animals – Sorting Cards; Notebook Pages
• Nocturnal vs. Diurnal Animals – Sorting Cards, identification page
• Whose Tongue? – Fun identification page, notebook page

The Big Animal Bundle includes well over 250+ pages of games, worksheets and activities!

See more details about the Big Animal BUNDLE here.

   $19.99 Big Animal Bundle including  1) Animal Unit, 2) World Animals Packet, 3) Rainforest Packet, 4) Life Cycles Packet, 5) Winter Packet

1. Animal Unit (vertebrates-invertebrates, animal homes & shelters, animal tracks and more!!) 2. World Animal Packet 3. Rainforest Packet 4. Life Cycles Packet and 5. Winter Packet & Polar Animals and Hibernation Unit

$4.99 Amazon Rainforest Packet (50 pages) Quick Preview or visit the post or view image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5 $4.99  Life Cycles Packet (50 pages) Explore the life cycles of the chicken, sea turtle, frog, mosquito, butterfly, dragonfly, bee, ladybug, mouse Quick Preview or visit the post or view image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5

$4.99  Winter Unit – Earth’s Axis/Seasons; The Arctic vs. Antarctica; Polar Animals includes a Hibernation Unit (100+ pages)   Winter Packet and Hibernation Unit Quick Preview or view the post or view image 1, image 2 Arctic vs Antartica, image 3 polar animals, image 4 seals sea lions penguins, image 5 Hibernation Unit

$10.00 World Animal Packet and Animal Unit (Vertebrates-Invertebrates, Animal Homes, Animal Tracks and More)

$0.00 FREE Living Nonliving Cards and Worksheets (More info here)

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New! Five Senses Unit

You might also be interested in our New Five Senses Packet!

$5.99 This 100+ page Five Senses Unit has dozens of hands-on activities and detailed, colorful worksheets for learning all about the five senses – sight & the eye, hearing & the ear, taste & the tongue, smell & the nose, touch & the skin.  See this post for more details.

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Dinosaur Unit

Here are some related packets that might be of interest:

Biology Unit (find out more at this post): After our family did the Animal Unit, we went on to study the biosphere. We talked about the different biomes, the food chain and food webs, the energy pyramid, animal feeding relationships and more.

  $6.50 Biology Unit: Biomes, habitats, ecosystem, biological interactions, feeding relationships (70 pages)

  Don’t forget to check your PayPal email address for the download link!

If your kids are a bit older (upper elementary, middle school) your kids might enjoy the Scientific Classification and Taxonomy Unit.  We did this Animal Unit several years ago and just this year we did an entire unit on scientific classification & taxonomy. We build dichotomous keys and went into quite a bit of depth about the animal phyla:

$4.75 Scientific Classification and Taxonomy Packet

  Don’t forget to check your PayPal email address for the download link!

You might also be interested in our Rainforest Packet-this link takes you to the post where you can find out more!

  $4.99 Amazon Rainforest Packet (50 pages)

Don’t forget to check your PayPal email address for the download link from SendOwl (the delivery service I use)!

Don’t forget to check your PayPal email address for the download link.

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You might also be interested in these posts:

• Montessori Cards: Vertebrates-Invertebrates; 5 Vertebrate Groups

• Free World Biomes Pin Map (Grasslands, Deserts, Savanah, Tundra, Deciduous Forests, etc.)
• Various Free Montessori 3-Part Cards that I’ve made for the kids over the years
• Preschool at Home: Science for 2-5 year olds on up!

Other related posts you might be interested in:

• Preschool at Home: Activities you can do with your 2-4 Year Olds, Fine Motor Skills
• Preschool at Home: Learning Letters
• Preschool at Home: Alphabet Activities
• Preschool at Home: Handwriting
• Preschool at Home: Science for 2-4 Year Olds
• Preschool Montessori: Vertebrate and Invertebrate Study and Free Cards
• Preschool at Home: A Few Math Ideas for the 2 1/2-3 year old crowd
• Preschool Math Activities (K4) Montessori Math and More
• Preschool at Home: Lapbooks
• You might also be interested in the post: Homeschool Preschool Year in Review which was a recap of many of our preschool activities this past year.
• Preschool Geography: Activities for learning about where we live in the world, Montessori world map work and more
• Preschool Geography: Maps and More
• The Seven Continents and World Landmarks

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• Make 5 and Make 10 playing cards
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• Doubling Bump Game
• Doubling +1 game board and game cards (1+2, 2+3… 7+8, 8+9)
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