Reading a Map

Obtain maps from your local tourist information center, your municipality or regional council.

Teach your students how to read the coordinates of a map.

Example: Using a tourist map of Jerusalem find Ben Zvi Blvd. in the  Index. What are the given coordinates? (D-G / 6) Look at the map. Put one finger from your left hand on D-G and one finger from your right hand on 6.

Encourage your students to look through the list of roads, streets and suburbs. (Weaker students can use a Hebrew edition.)

Ask students to list famous Israelis after whom places are named.

Form heterogeneous groups in which the students share and talk about the names on their lists.

Each group chooses one of the "NAMES" from their list (that they feel the other groups do not know about him/her).

The other groups are given the opportunity to guess who the person is and describe him/her..

The first group to succeed, gets a point. Two points are given to the group that stumps the others after the group leader describes the person behind the "NAME."

Avi Tsur

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