Know it! - North America - Year 6

The educational material from Focus Education provides a series of interactive tasks designed to help Year 6 students recall and reinforce their knowledge of North America and its main geographical features. One of the activities, "Give me five!", challenges pupils to list five US states beginning with the letter 'A', encouraging them to remember specific details without worrying about spelling. Another task, "Cops and robbers", involves group collaboration where students write down what they remember about the USA and then 'steal' knowledge from peers by adding new information they hadn't initially recalled. This peer-learning approach not only reinforces individual knowledge but also promotes sharing and learning from others.

Further exercises include providing facts about prominent states such as New York and California, answering questions about the origins of US immigrants and the country's natural resources, and identifying the oceans surrounding North America. Students are also tasked with naming US states and distinguishing which words from a list are associated with the USA. Additionally, the "Give me 3!" activity asks for three facts about Texas, Mexico, and Canada, encouraging a deeper dive into the characteristics of these places. Finally, a matching exercise tests students' geographical knowledge by having them pair numbers with the correct countries in North America, such as the USA, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, and Greenland.