6.27 Matching the Capital to the Cricket Playing Country – Guidelines

Activity title: Matching the Capital to the Cricket Playing Country
Curriculum area: Geography & Citizenship
NC objectives: Geography 1c, 2a, c, d, 3c, f, Citizenship 4b, f.

Main learning objective:

To identify the capital cities of the cricket playing nations.
Timing Lesson plan and supporting resources
   
Introduction
15 minutes
  • Discuss the main countries that compete at cricket and discuss why more countries do not play cricket at a higher level. Possibly talk about the Commonwealth and what this means.
  • Show the class a world map and identify the countries that are the major playing cricket nations.
   
Main Activity
30 Minutes
  • Provide the pupils with the ‘Match the Capital to the Country’ game in the Activity section, which will need to have been cut out and made beforehand. Alternatively, edit the sheet in the downloads section by changing the order of the capital cities and the children can cut the cards out and then play the game.
  • Play the game by simply matching the capital to the country. When the class get to the point that they are struggling, provide them with an atlas and they can find the capital cities for each country.
  • Once complete, play ‘Kim’s game/Memory game’ with the cards to learn the pairs.
  • Then identify the continents for each cricket playing nation and see what they spot. Why is this?
   
Plenary
15 Minutes
  • Move around the class and ask the children to ensure all children have the correct capital city for each country.
  • If time is available, allow the children to play the ‘Data Creator Card Game’ for the country data for the cricket playing nations.

Suggested extension activities or cross curricular links: