Description

What our Caribbean Islands lesson plan includes

Lesson Objectives and Overview: Caribbean Islands is a fun lesson for students from 3rd through 6th grade. Students will learn all about this tropical part of the world. They will discover some of the facts and traits about this region that make it special. They will learn some of the history as well.

Several content pages illustrate the region known as the Caribbean. The lesson begins by describing where the Caribbean is and how it used to be called the West Indies. It discusses some basics, such as how many islands there are and what the climate is like. The weather in this part of the world, for instance, does not change very much between winter and summer. The main difference between seasons is the amount of rainfall the area receives.

Students will learn about some of the islands specifically. Several islands of the Caribbean are incredibly popular and well known. These include Aruba, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Then students will discover some really cool facts about some of these places. For example, two-thirds of the people of Montserrat had to flee between 1995 and 2000 because of volcanic activity.

TOURISM POSTER ACTIVITY

You will assign each student (or pair or group of students if you prefer) an island. They will create a tourism poster that will attract tourists to their island. They can use the internet to find more information and pictures to put on their posters. At the end, you will grade their posters using the rubric.

CAPITALS AND QUESTIONS PRACTICE WORKSHEET

For the practice worksheet, students will first match 10 capital cities to the correct island or territory. There is a word bank to the right of the cities from which students can select their answers. Next, students will answer 15 questions about the Caribbean islands based on the information in the lesson.