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I have 2 powerpoints for you. I don't think either are exactly what you're looking for, but hopefully they can give you some ideas, or at least pictures and a format to build off of.

#1 This is a lesson I did just to supplement a page on the book. It shows time differences in different cities in the world. All of the cities are the capital city of the country (except for Montreal/Canada... I don't know why but the book chose Montreal) You can click on the city to find it's name and time, and then click on it further to see pictures of it, and some brief facts about the city.   At the end theres pictures of things people do at certain times of the day (to go along with the time zone)...but if you skip past that there's a bomb game to review the ppt.

#2 This is just a powerpoint showing pictures of capitals. The country is highlighted in a colour, students have to guess what country it is, then guess the capital, and it goes through pictures of the capital.


I hope this helps you somewhat.

One game you can use which is good for most ages is to set up a grid of countries flags with two copies of each. You can either do this with physical flash card or through a power point presentation. They all start face down. They turn one over and have to tell you the country, capital city and if a more advanced class you can add things like nationality, currency, famous landmarks, foods or similar things. They then have to turn over another card to see if they can find the match. Its good for repetition and memory and kids of all ages love this game. With large classes put them in teams and this still works.

Are you planning a lesson to teach the different capital cities of COUNTRIES or of the states in the USA?

Cool video.  I liked it.  I have four suggestions to throw into the mix.  First, Enchanted Learning.com has a geography section.  It is a pay site but they have some free stuff.  Second, I thought the song was a bit fast, so if I used this video, I would probably transcribe the song and teach it to my (5th or 6th grade) students first and then I would make a memory game out of it.  Third, if you have a large class, it could be an interesting idea to make a large information gap of the states in the US and their capital cities a la Andrrew Finch.  The fourth idea is to make a Pelmanism game with a reasonable number of states and their capitals say about ten states and their capitals.  The idea behind a Pelmanism game is to link images with text, so one card would be an image of say California, with a star where it's state capital is, and the corresponding card would have the state capital's name written on it.  Turn the cards image and text down and have the students start turning them over student-by-student, and only two cards at a time.  When they can find the state image and capital pair, they can "keep" the cards as their points.  A follow up to this would be to play the infamous elementary school snatch game except not on the floor but on the table or desk top.  Hope this helps.  It is a good idea.  Good luck and have fun.. 

 I suggest you a teaching site, there are some teaching materials including some PPTs. in "   mes english"

I actually found a blank map of the world on google, then put it into paint, and just coloured each country the colour I wanted, then copied it onto ppt.

Good luck!