Cyprus - Lesson Plan

Class Title: Social Science, geography

Lesson Title: Cyprus

Grade level: age10-12 years, primary

Author: group no1

Objectives:
Students learn:
- find Cyprus on a map of Europe
- know what the flag looks like
- statistical information
- the history about Cyprus
- about the traditional food and drinks
- about the traditional music
- football
- tourism

Materials
- books
- Internet
- films
- local library

Lesson plan

1. Brainstorming
With the whole class we have a brainstorming about Cyprus
What do you know already about Cyprus?
What do you want to learn about Cyprus?

2. Group work
The class is divided into small groups.
Every group works on a topic they choose after the brainstorming

3. Presentations of group work
Each group gives a presentation of their work using f.i. powerpoint, blogs, webpages, photo story, pictures, posters....

4. Cypriot party
We organise a final party with traditional Cypriot music, we prepare Cypriot food and learn some basic Greeks