As we’ve said, “kids can’t care about what they don’t know about”. This is an easy classroom activity that will help students learn the names of the countries in Latin America.
For this activity, Teacher will need:
For this activity students will need:
- Map of Latin America
- a sheet of star stickers
During activity, teacher will randomly select and hold up a teacher country card.
Students will find this country on their outline map and place sticker on that country.
For example, Nicaragua:
Continue until all the country cards have been covered or the time allotment for this activity is up.
During the activity, teacher should draw attention to and reinforce the concepts of shape and location for each country. Guide students toward an improved ability to identify the countries of Latin America by shape and location within the continent.