Left Hand- Right Hand
Two Cards- labels may be cut from image to make picture/label matching. (The child’s hand is the control of error).
Used in conjunction with the lesson “Mapping the Hand” found in the Early Childhood Geography Manual and excerpted here:
Presentation 1:
- Hold up one hand with the fingers spread.
- Say, This is my hand. I am going to draw an outline or a map of my hand.
- Place one hand spread on a piece of paper.
- With the pencil, trace the outline of the hand.
- Place the pencil down; hold the paper up.
- Say, This is an outline or a map of my hand.
- Ask, Is this paper my hand?
- Say, This is a map of my hand; it is not my real hand.
- Place the other hand spread on a piece of paper.
- With the pencil, trace the outline of the hand.
- Place the pencil down; hold the paper up.
- Say, This is an outline or map of my other hand.
- Ask, Can this be a map of my other hand?
- Hold the paper up and attempt to place the hand on the map of the otherhand.
- Say, These two maps are different because they are maps of two different hands.
- If the children can read, and if they know the left hand from the righthand, distribute the right hand and left hand labels.
- Ask, Who has the right hand label?
- Place the right hand label next to the map of the right hand.
- Ask, Who has the left hand label?
- Place the left hand label next to the map of the left hand.
- Set up an individual activity in the classroom that allows the children tomake maps of their hands, labeling them if they are reading/writing.
Printed full color on heavy stock and laminated.