Flags of the World includes hundreds of images of flags for countries at every spot on the globe. Middle school students could use ESPN SportsZone's World Cup schedule and the CIA World Factbook to create a detailed geographic schedule of the games. As we often mention in these lesson plans, the Factbook is a terrific resource for data on every country in the world. Looking at the World Cup schedule, Scotland plays Brazil on June 10 in Paris. Based on the crops grown in each country, theorize what foods each team's players might eat before the game.
Teachers can easily transform the catalog into an online geography lesson.
98 Online , a British site, to study the history of both this soccer spectacle and the 20th Century. 98 Online allows users to review the games, locations, and video highlights of every World Cup, beginning with the inaugural event in 1930. After students get totally enthralled in the video clips, which they will, challenge them to use online resources like the The Historical Atlas of 20th Century History , The People's Century , or TheHistoryNet to map world history against World Cup history. Challenge students to use the web to find historical grounding for every World Cup. Newspaper Activities Use the Detroit News to create a World Cup news almanac.