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[jellomando]

This is a follow-up to the Geography I lesson and is really the second half of AlexMokpo's Geography lesson.

Europe:

• Native Speaker introduces the concept of Europe and the sub-areas. 5 minutes.
• Native Speaker brainstorms as many countries as possible and categorizes them into the various sub-areas. 5 minutes.
• Students are split into groups and perform the Country Description activity using brainstormed countries. 15 minutes.
• Native Speaker presents the complete list of all countries for Students to memorize. 5 minutes.
• Students perform European worksheet. 10 minutes.
• Native Speaker goes over the European worksheet with students. 5 minutes.

Notes:

• Usually the boys succeed at Describe a County activity by listing off the various soccer teams that they know.
• The European worksheet worked better than expected; sometimes I even skipped the Country Description activity so that they could take up the European worksheet (or play the Map Game).
• Forcing the Students to go through 48 countries will takes a long time; splitting the countries into 6 groups give each group a manageable chunk.
• When taking up the Europe worksheet the 6 groups easily transforms into a game with 6 rounds:
  
  • As outlined in the lesson, you give each group a map and tell them to memorize it for five minutes.
  • You hand out the worksheet and take the map away despite their protests and give them ten minutes to fill in the map.
  • Around the five minute mark they’ll start to sputter so offer a hint by providing the list of countries for spelling purposes.
  • When they’re approaching the ninth or so minute I have volunteer from each group come up to my desk and pick up a small white board, a dry eraser and a marker.
  • Each questions takes the form of a country picture (Microsoft clip-art surprisingly covers all countries in Europe, except for Mpladonia) and the number on the worksheet.  A correct answer requires the group to properly spell the country on the white board and raise the white board above their head.
  • I present the beginning of each round with a list of countries.  If they’re smart they’ll feverishly copy this list down somewhere and have a valid stockpile of answers; just writing one country down and continually showing it for each question will result in at least one correct answer.

The study map and the map test both come from worldatlas.com. Everything else was taken from Microsoft Clipart.

More information about my lessons can be found here.

[jellomando]

If your kids complain about the map activity being too difficult, just show 'em <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/g0UpCrEd4l0&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/g0UpCrEd4l0&rel=1</a>, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/r43yCiKlbCo&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/r43yCiKlbCo&rel=1</a>.

[Samuel]

funny

[WebAdmin]

Wow, that's awesome.  I love how the kid starts to jump up and down the bed, then gets serious again and points at the map.