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The geological make up of the island allows visitors to experience the gullies, caves and many hidden treasures of the limestone formed country which set out for awesome adventures and beautiful sights.

Apart from being the most easterly Caribbean island, Barbados’ unique cultural foundation is built on its rich history, heritage and traditional practices which tend to attract many visitors the world over.

Lesson Plan

Date: Monday 29th February 2016 Time: 11:20-12:00 pm Duration: 40 mins

Class: 3SIMMONS Age range: 9-10 years

Subject: Social Studies Topic: Beautiful Barbados- Place of Interest in Barbados.

Integrated Subjects:

Vocabulary Building, Information Technology, Visual Arts

Generalizations:

There are many attractions and places of interest for tourist to visit on the island of Barbados.

Concepts: Map, island, interest, attractions, people, places of interest tourist, vacation.

Objectives:

1. Understand how to read a map of Barbados.

2. Discover tourist attractions and locations of places of interest in Barbados.

3. Describe pictures on the map of Barbados.

4. Explore a website to identify the different attractions offered at the locations of interest.

Teaching Strategy:

1. Discussion

2. Questioning

3. Visual Discrimination

4. Guided Discovery

Technology / Materials:

1. Song- Beautiful Barbados

2. Visitor’s map of Barbados

3. Laptop

4. Speakers

5. Drawing books

Set Induction:

The students will be taken to the computer room. The teacher will provide each student will a small booklet and ask students identify what it is.

Learning Experiences:

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• Question students to describe what they see in the booklet.

• Find out if anyone knows how to read the map.

• Explain to students that we are going to use the map to locate places in Barbados where tourist would visit.

• Find out if anyone can name some of the popular places of interest in Barbados.

• Allow individual students to respond.

• Encourage the students to search the map to find pictures of places of interest.

• Locate by pointing out places of interest on the map.

• Ask each student to type in the name of the tourist attraction in Google to locate a website

• Allow selected students to describe what they see.

• Distribute drawing books and writing tools.

• Ask students to draw a picture illustrating a tourist attraction/place of interest.

Assessment:

• Oral questioning.

• Performance task will be given where the students will create a picture depicting a place of interest in Barbados.

Closure:

• Invite the students to sing the song “Beautiful Barbados”

Evaluation:

Teacher’s Signature_____________________________________________________________

It’s simple, teaching is intense and the passion I have for my career makes me want to learn more about every possible thing I can. Being a teacher in the primary school system for over 8 years is fun and can very exciting, especially teaching young children. Constantly I search for different ways to challenge myself and keep the knowledge current and functioning. The only way to survive in this world of teaching today is to push myself to do new tasks and research new areas where information can be transferred to all my students.