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ABOUT ELAINE: Elaine is a blogger at Planting Peas who writes primarily about Montessori inspired learning and fun kids activities. She lives in Canada, and is blessed with a loving husband and two wonderful children ages 3 and 8. She is a simple, typical mom-next-door who loves to rediscover the joys of learning with her children and hopes to share, inspire and help others through her journey and experience. Follow Elaine on Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

[earleenproehl]

Then I thought we can incorporate a little art into our lesson, after all when a child reproduces his work, the lesson becomes reinforced in his memory. here

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We used paper plates and liquid watercolor to reinforce this lesson. Our brushes are from Ikea and I have to say they are pretty good! here

[E-conomictest]

Then I let him paint away! The continents were a breeze for him to paint. [links]

[jmarclucash]

I hand-wrote and drew the labels for Western and Eastern Hemisphere with arrows. The arrows work as a control of error in this exercise. I also colored the arrows with the continent colors (except Antarctica which is just white.) Although he can’t read yet, he can roughly guess words using the beginning sounds — in this case it’s “w-w-western” and “ea-ea-eastern.” here

[AT-LOW]

I created a rough outline of the continents — first using pencil, then a marker, then using crayons. I apologize that my outline was really bad. You may have noticed that Antarctica in the Western hemisphere is way off! Plus I spelled Antarctica wrongly and just realized it. I learn something new every day through my children! [links]

[robotmonkey]

The Northern Hemisphere comprises of all of North America, northern parts of South America, around two-thirds of Africa, all of Asia except some parts of Indonesia, and all of Europe. [links]

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The Southern Hemisphere comprises of most of South America, one-third of Africa, some parts of Indonesia, all of Antarctica and all of Australia/Oceania.

[baloney]

How would you react if someone tells you that his birthday falls in the month of December during the nice and warm summers? You would think that either he is quite at sea in Geography subject and does not know anything about the seasons, or is just lying blatantly. Before jumping to any conclusion, ask him where he lives! Such a ‘miracle’ is experienced in real life by those who live in the southern hemisphere of the Earth, for example, in Australia. Now the question arises—what is a hemisphere?

[Andreas Schildbach]

Geographers divide the Earth into the North and South Hemispheres separated by the equator, and into the East and West Hemispheres separated by the Greenwich Meridian. But, these four regions are not clearly demarcated from each other and also overlap sometimes. So, for the ease of studying, the Earth is divided into only two distinct and non-overlapping hemispheres: the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

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‘Hemi’ means ‘half’ in Greek language and ‘sphere’ means ‘a round object’. Hemisphere, thus, means half of the Earth that is spherical in shape. Geographers have divided the Earth into four distinct hemispheres—Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern—each representing one half of the Earth.

[Necrathex]

The climate of the Northern Hemisphere is different from that of the Southern Hemisphere because of the Earth’s seasonal tilt towards and away from the sun. All of you know that the Earth is slightly tilted on its axis, and depending on the time of the year, one of the hemispheres is tilted toward the Sun, while the other half is, obviously, tilted away from the Sun. And thus, when one hemisphere experiences the cold conditions of the winter season, the other hemisphere experiences the warm conditions of summers.

[Inedible]

The Southern Hemisphere includes most of South America, one-third of Africa, all of Antarctica, a small sliver of Asia (parts of Indonesia) and all of Australia/Oceania.

[dangerman]

These Hemispheres have very interesting facts about them here

[QuantumMechanic]

There was a boy named Billy. His birthday fell in nice and warm summers. Every year he celebrated his birthday on 22nd December. Are you surprised? I sure was..

[ChesterA321]

The Northern Hemisphere includes all of North America, the northern parts of South America, about two-thirds of Africa, all of Asia excluding (parts of Indonesia) and all of Europe. more

[mybassfishing]

You see the Earth is a sphere and can be divided into two hemispheres. The line that divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere is equator . here

[sujanacast]

Coming back to our question that how Billy celebrated his birthday on Dec 22 in summers? He lived in Australia :)

[GoldRush]

We revised our Lines of Longitude and Latitude with the fun Geography game “Simon Says”.

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We attached each side to the left and right sides of the base circle. here

[Gatsu]

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