Lesson 3: I am at home in Europe (building a physical map II)

Rivers, mountains and landforms in Europe

Lesson description

After having laid out the country borders and marked the capital cities and flags, the students continue to work on the rivers and landforms. Not all students will be busy as not all countries will have major rivers and landforms. The teacher might possibly wish to assign these students to new groups or to assign students who have already fi nished with their country to another group.

The students should use different materials, such as textiles, paper, etc., to lay out the rivers and landforms.

The students can also add other things to the physical map, but this should be voluntary. The students should decide whether or not to do this; it also depends on the information they collected during their country research (on food, famous people, etc.).

When the physical map is finished, photos are taken. Ideally, the map should be photographed twice – once with the students standing in “their” countries and once without the students, so that all the landforms, rivers, etc., can be clearly seen.