EU: Lesson 1: Am I a European?

Students are often uncertain about the European Union and what if anything it has to do with them. This activity has been planned to enable them to realize that they have all sorts of connections and interconnections with a whole variety of places at a variety of scales. It helps them to draw on their own prior geographical experiences and use these in the classroom.

The European Union flag
Starter
Students complete an identity / multi-personalities activity. (Resource 1)

Main activity
Discuss conclusions with students and summarise places that they have connections with.
Now use a map to show the location of the countries with which they have connections. This could be done on an interactive white board and stored or with a wall map or atlas. Compare the differences between this and their original maps.

Plenary
Students brainstorm what they already know about European Union.

They summarise their individual understandings and perceptions at this stage using the writing frame scaffold in Resource 2, if they need to.

Go to Lesson 2

Downloads

EU lesson 1 (, 31 KB)
EU Resource 1 (, 44 KB)
EU resource 2 (, 29 KB)