Day 3

Goals:

1. Students will learn the general location of the Caribbean island nations.

2. Students will have a general sense of location on the world map.

3. Students will become part of the cooperative learning experience through mapping activities.

4. There will be a shift of locus of control in the classroom with the teacher as a facilitator and the students direct involvement in their learning process.

Time:

3 hours

Resources/Materials:

blank world maps, atlases

Procedure:

1. Students will engage in mapping activities. First, they will take out a piece of paper and either verbally or visually write down whatever knowledge they have about the location of the Caribbean island nations.

2. Turn these in to the teacher to be put into students' files.

3. Teacher hands out world map with no labels for second mapping activity.

4. Students individually will label what they know on the map including continents, oceans, seas, and countries.

5. Hand these second maps in to be put into students' files.

6. Next, the class will be divided into groups of four.

7. Each group will be given a larger world map to label more specifically than the last map.

8. Students will engage in group effort to label the map with a designated recorder.

9. Groups of eight will combine to help each other label the maps in greater detail.

10. Teacher then passes out atlases.

11. Next, the class comes together as a whole group to contribute to one whole class world map that is located at the front of the room. Each group contributes their information with one designated person from the group writing it on the class world map. Other students at this time look to see what other groups labeled that they did not.

12. Each teacher will have specific criteria of what he/she wants the students to have labeled on the map including oceans, lakes, rivers, continents, and countries to all of the island nations that make up the Caribbean.

13. The teacher will have groups of four come to the front of the blank world map and point out specific things like two countries and two oceans to assess their knowledge of location on the world map.

Assessment:

Groups of four will come up to the world map that has no labels and the teacher will have them point out four specific things on the map, for example two continents and two lakes to asses their knowledge of location. Students will also be assessed by the participation rubric found at the end of the week's lessons.

Curricular Strands:

Social Studies - history, location

Science - maps, scales

English - reading, writing

Math - maps, scales

Art - maps

Possible Extensions:

Students can label specific cities within the Caribbean island nations.

Carribean Unit - written by Trina Collins, Richard Wheeler, & Daniel Shimek

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