The Literacy Project- Curriculum/Activity Description

Date: March 21, 2003

 

Submitted by:

Thane Thomsen

Subject: Geography

 

Level: ABE - GED

Assessment/Evaluation:

This activity can be administered like a quiz and used as an assessment tool.

 

Massachusetts ABE Curriculum Frameworks

        Curriculum Framework(s):  Social Studies

Strands and Standards addressed:

     Strand-                                                         

Environments and Interdependence – 

          

 Learning Standard –

Their “place” in relationship to the rest of the world

  

Duration:

20 – 30 minutes

 

Brief Description (for website index):

Exercise to determine whether a place is a city, state, country, or continent.

 

Lesson Objective(s):

To encourage students to think about whether a place is a city, state, country, or continent.  To provide a forum for discussing world politics.

 

Lesson Procedure:

  • Ask students to take a blank sheet of paper and across the top label four columns with the following headings:

                       City               State              Country            Continent

 

  • On the board, generate a list of 15 to 30 places that can be can be categorized under these headings.  For example:

 

Paris

Texas

Europe

California

Argentina

Moscow

China

 

  • Ask students to write each place under the appropriate category, using one line per place.  Then have them fill in each category to the right of each listed place. For example, the line for ‘California’ should look like this:

 

City              State              Country            Continent

                California        United States    North America

 

  • You will need to explain to students that only cities in the United States will require filling in the ‘State’ category.

 

  • You might want to put some hard-to-categorize places towards the end of your list. Examples of such places are:  Puerto Rico; Tibet; Palestine; Washington, D.C.; and Taiwan.

 

Materials Needed:  none

 

 

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