Skip the Continents Test, and Try Daily Exit Tickets

These Continents and Oceans exit tickets will be excellent additions to your social studies or world geography curriculum. This resource includes twenty different exit tickets, each with a question and answer sequence requiring students to write the name of the correct continent and color that continent on a world map.

Through these daily exit tickets, students will locate and label the 7 continents and 5 oceans, enhance their knowledge of the world, and demonstrate their knowledge of the world’s continents and oceans.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

In addition to independent student work time, use this worksheet as an activity for:

• Lesson warm-up
• Lesson wrap-up
• Fast finishers 
• Homework assignment
• Whole-class review (via smartboard)

Easily Download & Print

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource. 

Additionally, project the exit tickets onto a screen and work through them as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks.  An answer key is included in the download.

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This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator. 

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