Materials

• Map of the world

Instructional Activities

1. Review information from the previous session.
   
   
2. Explain to students that in addition to physical regions, the world is divided into cultural regions. Ask students to suggest some different cultural divisions. Record their responses on the board or overhead.
   
   
3. Display the following list of cultural regions on the board or overhead. Add additional regions as desired:
   • Language
     - Latin America — Spanish
     - Francophone world — French
   • Ethnicity
     - Chinese
     - Kurdistan
   • Religion
     - Islam
     - Buddhism
   • Economic
     - Wheat belts
     - European Union (EU)
   • Political
     - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
   
   
4. Distribute an unlabeled outline map of the world to students, and instruct them to draw a line around or color each of these regions, using different colors for each type of region. Have them indicate with symbols or lines where cultural regions overlap, e.g., the Francophone world overlaps with a wheat belt in France.
   
   
5. Explain that different areas/countries may share characteristics that put them in the same language region but in different economic regions.
   
   
6. Assign a teacher-selected reading, worksheet, or other reinforcement activity, using available teacher resources.