Curriculum Integration Ideas for Social Studies

1. Give each student a world map. Each week as you study a new country, have them color and label the country. They can include the capitols and major rivers. At the end of each quarter, you can quiz students on the countries studied.

2. Assign research reports on the countries. Each student can choose one of the quarter's (or year's) countries and write a research report on it. Their reports can be presented the same week you pray for the country they wrote about.

3. Study and compare capital cities, climates, cultures, religions, economy, etc. Assign worksheets to find out more information about each country each week (See the bibliography for the book of worksheets on Africa).

4. Print blank flags and maps and color and label them.

• Visit 3DFlags.com to find lots of flags!
• Roots: Investigating Your Heritage is a great activity to teach students about the World Factbook and their heritage. Great lead-in lesson for this program.