What makes a country a country?

 What a great lesson. The children recapped their knowledge about hemispheres and the Equator.

Then, they were introduced to an atlas as well as the index to help them find countries of the world. Using the atlas allowed them to see how countries are different from: size, shape, names and near the oceans as well as the different hemispheres.

Then the watched a short clip which explained what a country needs to identify as a country. The children decided that La country needed a flag, currency, borders, a government, religion, language, passport, ruler. mountains  and rivers. 













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