Name: __________________________ Subject: The European Countries

 

Europe

 
Introduction:  
  Europe is, one of the world's seven continents.

Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10.180.000 square kilometers or 2% of the Earth's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50 states, Russia is the largest by both area and population (although the country has territory in both Europe and Asia), while the Vatican City is the smallest. Europe is the third-most populous continent after Asia and Africa, with a population of 731 million or about 11% of the world's population.
It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean and other bodies of water to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea and connected waterways to the southeast.
Task:  
  Working on teams, you can make a brochure about Europe!
It can contain a short text of the history of Europe,the European countries and their capitals.
Information about European union... And whatever you thing that could be a good idea to be in the brochure to inform your classmates about Europe.
Process:  
  The students have to search information about Europe and working in groups they have to organize these information. The teacher has to lead them and to help them in the designing of the brochure, because maybe is the first time they do something like this and they don't know how to do it.
Resources:  
 
  The following sites can help to the task :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/country_europe_G2_drag-drop.html

http://europa.eu/abc/European_countries/eu_members/index_en.htm

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/capitals_europe.htm

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-european-countries-and-capitals.html

http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/eu.html

http://www.hxms.com/flags/flags.html

http://flagpedia.net/continent/europe
Evaluation:  
  The evaluation contains the participation of the students in the classroom (20%).
Cooperation within groups (20%).
The writing way and the answers in the taks. (60%)
Conclusion:  
  The aim of this brochure is to copy it and give it to all the students of the school and inform them about Europe.

After this task the students would have more knowledge about Europe and its countries.

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