Interactive Europe (spanish and english)

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The good teaching practice at a glance

Subject of practice

Geography

Target groups

Learner

Educational level

Secondary Education

Short Summary

The curriculum of Social Science for the first two years of Secondary School includes, among other lessons, physical and political features maps, rivers, …in all Europe. With this easy practice we try to add one more activity making use of something in which our pupils are already pretty competent: ICT

This activity is focused on the interaction with maps on the Internet. The students learn to find, place and connect different European countries, capital cities, towns and flags in a playful and fun way. The chance of being able to choose different languages and different levels allows the student, with the teacher’s help, to develop its own learning plan.

Duration of the implementation

2014-05-20 09:30:00 - 2014-05-20 09:30:00

Difficulty of ICT solutions used

Easy

Detailed description

Age of learners

15 - 20

Learning outcomes

1.Learn to find, place and connect European countries with their capital cities and flags. 2.Train their memory skills. 3.Learn to take part in forums.

Typical learning time

2 sesion of 60 minutes

Description of challenges faced (Are there any difficulties teachers/learners might face?)

This practice consists of 1-2 sessions (depending on the students) of 60 minutes each, but can be adapted to other topics of the same subject: relief, hydrography, European Union members, Autonomous Regions, geography of the continents, etc. All this is integrated in an e-Learning Moodle Platform available at this URL:

http://www.campusvertical.es/moodle/enrol/index.php?id=6  (Spanish). Access as a “guest” is available.

Detailed description

Every interactive map is about: Where is it? What is it called? Answer the question.

1.- The class starts viewing the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj8PFZt2k5E

  • Where is it? Each student gets connected to: http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/ealg0027/europa1e.html y find the countries dragging the mouse over the map of Europe. On the same map click on “play” and find all the countries. If the students get to a wrong answer, an indicator will help them with the right location.
  • What is it called? Change the map.  http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/ealg0027/europa2e.html and this time the student has to find out the name of the given country.
  • Change the window and answer the question which is displayed. If the student gets between 30-40 correct answers they can continue; otherwise, they must start over.

2.- The process has to be repeated, but this time the student has to find and place the capital cities of each country. Where is it? http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/ealg0027/europa1ecap.html.  Change the map what is it called? http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/ealg0027/europa2ecap.html. Change the window and answer the question. If the answer is correct the student can continue; otherwise, the process must be repeated.

3.- Once activities 1 and 2 have been successfully done, they get connected to: http://www.toporopa.eu/es/banderas_de_europa.html . This time the student has to match countries and flags.  Another chance consists of viewing the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWY2ckFs0NM

4.- To reuse and broaden this practice they can be invited to repeat the same process with other maps connected to the topic

They can also practise languages while learning geography. In order to do it, get to this link and click on the flag you are interested in.

Learning Activities / Implementation

The class starts viewing the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj8PFZt2k5E

Where is it? Each student gets connected to: http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/ealg0027/europa1e.htmly find the countries

What is it called? Change the map.  http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/ealg0027/europa2e.html

Change the window and answer the question

 The process has to be repeated, but this time the student has to find and place the capital cities of each country.

Once activities 1 and 2 have been successfully done, they get connected. This time the student has to match countries and flags.

If the student has finished and has more time left, they can spend time searching for information of all those countries

To reuse and broaden this practice they can be invited to repeat the same process with other maps connected to

They can also practice languages while learning geography. In order to do it, get to this link and click on the flag you are interested in. the topic:

Resources used to realise the practice
Computer lab with Wi-Fi connection. One computer per student (if not possible, 2/1)Tablet• Personal c
Tools used to realise the practice

Browser. Interactive maps. Word processor, e-learning Platform, e-mail

Country of originSpain
Language of the practiceSpanish
Website relatedCampus Vertical
Status of the practiceFinal
Download full practice desciprion Interactiv Europe (spanish-english).pdf
Area of good practice
  • ICT enabled learning - Using digital resources for face-to-face classroom practice & for online learning/blended classroom practice
  • Community Building - Using digital resources to connect learners/build communities
  • Quality and Assessment - Using digital resources to better assess learning
Copyright related to this practice

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

This practice is
Transferable, Adaptability, Effectiveness, Availability, Collaborative
Further contributors of this practice
Pilar Pagés
Useful literature
Available in pdf

About the author

Name of contributorM. Sol García, C. Gregori
Affiliation of contributor Secondary school teacher
Institution where this practice was implementedCECE
Contact e-mailformacion@campusvertical.es