Switzerland Lesson Plans

1. Exploring Switzerland
Exploring Switzerland Amy Troxel Grade: 2nd Course: Geography Purpose: To introduce the students to other countries, languages, and cultures. Connection to the National Geography Standards: This lesson is connected to national standard No. 4 for grades K-4. In this lesson we will explore the physical and human characteri...

2. Walking in Your Shoes Lesson Plan
...king in Your Shoes Why Imagine you could put on someone else?s comfortable shoes. What would you see if you were walking in an unfamiliar place? Steps 1. What kind of shoes would you wear if you lived in another country? In Senegal, children wear sandals; in England, some might have oxfords; and in Switzerland a pair of hiking boots might be the best fit. Choose a place to explore in your imagination. Find out what kind of shoes you would wear if you lived there. Then create a unique display to show what you might see while wearing those shoes. 2. Sculpt your shoe. Scrunch newspaper into a shoe shape. Use...

3. Pass the Paint - Painting
...( ) ( ) Web KinderArt advertisement Click Here SmileMakers - _ Reward, Educate, Motivate KinderArt® Lesson/Activity _ you might be interested in PASS THE PAINT Grade: K-2 KinderArt Littles - Age: 4-6 Ideas for Preschoolers Submitted by Jennifer Baxter, a teacher at International School Lausanne in Switzerland. Objectives To see that objects don't have a set color, our imagination is limitless. Cooperative art. What You Need: tempera paint in many colors enough for each student to have 1 pot of paint in a different color white painting paper brushes large surface for at least 10 children to be gathered in...

4. Micronesia Lesson Plan: Before the Adventure Team Departs, High School
.... Language Arts: o Use the Web to research answers to clues. Materials: o One computer for each student or group of students Photocopies of FSM demographic information from Web sources (optional) Lesson Plans: Step One: Preparation Begin by posting or distributing this list of nations to the class: Switzerland The Philippines Saudi Arabia Tanzania Sri Lanka Puerto Rico Federated States of Micronesia Ireland People's Republic of China Mongolia Egypt India Brazil Vietnam Cuba Step Two: Playing the Game Students will eliminate countries from the above list using the clues supplied until they arrive at the Ad...

5. Describe and Interpret Images: Folded Strata
...ing, following a lecture on the laws of original horizontality and superposition. Teaching Materials The instructor will need a slide projector and slides of appropriate images, or an overhead projector and the wherewithal to print the appropriate overheads, or a computer projector. Dent de Morcles Switzerland Show the students the image linked to the thumbnail on the left, the Dent de Morcles from Switzerland. Ask them to sketch it, and then ask a series of questions. For each question, have the student turn to their neighbor and work out an answer. Have the students report their answers before asking th...

6. Scholastic News: Winter Olympics
.... 3. Distribute copies of Where in the World Is Torino? Student Reproducible 2 (PDF) and read the directions aloud. Remind students to use online research to help them answer the questions. (Answer Key, Part A: 1. Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Ligurian Sea; 2. France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia; 3. Rome; 4. Italian Alps; 5. Po, Dora Ripario, Stura di Lanzo) Intro Wrap-up: Have students record in Part B of the reproducible how many time zones each athlete will cross to reach Torino. Photos, left to right: © Rick Rickman/NewSport/NewSport/Corbis; © Joe Cavaretta /AP Wide W...

7. LessonThree
...a Copa Mundial. B. Students will have a list of countries and students will have to check off which countries are participating in the World Cup. Germany England Argentina Angola USA Japan Costa Rica Paraguay Holland Portugal Brazil France Poland Trinidad & Tobago Mexico Italy Croatia Korea Ecuador Switzerland Iran Ghana Australia Spain C. Students will break off into groups of two. One student (A) will have a color picture of a uniform of one of the Spanish-speaking countries participating in the World Cup. Their partner (B) will have a blank outline of a t-shirt on a clipboard with some crayons. Student...

8. CoBaLTT Unit Overview
...will also compile information on a "special topic sheet" while completing the missions and repos to assist with the final unit assessment. The summative assessment is a class-created Powerpoint presentation. It is highly recommended to show students the example of the Powerpoint presentation (using Switzerland and languages as a sample) so that they have a better understanding of what is expected as they take notes for their specialized topic. A Unit from the CoBaLTT Project http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition University of Minnesota

9. Quenching Children's Thirst to Know & Grow
...they think pure fruit juice would make a healthy drink. Answers to Name That Juice! student reproducible: apple juice; orange juice; berry juice; grape juice. To see a list of photo credits, click here. LIBBY'S? and JUICY JUICE? are registered trademarks of Soci?t? des Produits Nestl? S.A., Vevey, Switzerland. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader? software, version 4.0 or higher to view and print items marked PDF. Get Adobe Reader? for FREE About Scholastic Careers Investor Relations International Scholastic en Espa?ol Privacy Policy Terms of Use TM ? & ? 2008-1996 Scholastic Inc. All Rights Reserved.

10. Red Crescent/Red Cross
...co-Sardinian war. Upon making his discovery of approximately 40,000 men laying dead or dying he organized the local community to provide needed medical attention. 2. In 1863, the Red Cross symbol, namely the white armlet bearing a red cross was introduced (the Red Cross flag is an inverted flag of Switzerland). 3. The Red Cross was instrumental in the establishment of the Geneva Convention and two specific requirements refer to the organization: 1) The national society must be recognized by its own national government as a relief society and 2) the national government of the respective country must be a...