Grades:

Grade 3 or lower

Subjects:

Social Studies

Overview

In this lesson, students will learn to acquaint themselves with different nations, their locations and learn some basic terms like  area, population, climate etc.

Suggested Time Allowance:

1 hour

Objectives:

Students will learn to locate information on the net and write a report.

Materials:

-Student Journals
-Classroom board
-Computers with Internet access

Lesson Plan

Create a list of various nations around the world and ask the students to choose the nation they would like to learn about. Each student should have a different nation.

Ask the students to do research on the country and prepare a small report on the following for each country: (Ask them to click their country name in the Countries Page to get all the information about their country of interest).

• Which continent is it in?
• What is the capital of the country?
• What are the other main cities?
• Length of border (use a string to get an approximate measure of the boundary line in a map and convert to miles or kilometers using the scale provided)
• Total area in square miles or kilometers
• Total population
• What type of government does it have?
• What is the terrain like?
• How is the climate?
• What is the main language spoken?
• What are the religions practiced?
• What is the currency?
• What is the national bird?

Ask them to draw the flag of the country and color it neatly in the report.

Assessment:

Students will be evaluated based on their reports.

Source:

NationMaster