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Into Europe
Activity Outlines
Mathematics
Land areas
These are the total land areas of the countries of the European Union:
Austria
82 725 km2
Belgium
30 513 km2
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
48 080 km2 304 610 km2 544 000 km2 356 910 km2 132 000 km2 69 000 km2
Italy
Luxembourg Netherlands
301 000 km2 2586 km2
41 160 km2
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
UK
92 100 km2 504 800 km2 411 630 km2 244 046 km2
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Devise and draw any sort of graph which will show the differences in land area, from the smallest to the
largest in the 15 countries.
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Enter these figures under the correct countries on an outline map of the world.
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Which is the smallest country?
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Which is the largest country?
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What is the difference in size between the largest and smallest countries?
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What is the total land area of the European Union?
Population
These are the approximate population totals of the countries of the European Union:
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
8.1 million
10 million
5.1 million
5.1 million
56.6 million
79 million
10.1 million
3.5 million
Italy
57.8 million
Luxembourg Netherlands
375 000
15 million
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
UK
10.3 million
39 million
8.9 million
57 million
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Devise and draw a graph to show the differences in population, from the smallest to the largest.
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Which country has the smallest population?
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Which country has the largest population?
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What is the combined population of the countries of the European Union?
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Study the land area graph and the population graph. Do the largest countries always have the largest
populations? If not, why not?
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Study some maps to see if you can discover reasons for some large countries having smaller populations
than countries with less land area.
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Into Europe
Activity Outlines
Music
The European Hymn
The music chosen as the European Union hymn is the Ode to Joy. This is a poem about the brotherhood of man
and international friendship. It was set to music by the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven as part
of his Symphony number 9 in D Minor. It was first performed in Vienna in 1824. By this time Beethoven was so
deaf that he could not hear his own music being played by an orchestra.
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Listen to a recording of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Write down or say what you think about the music.
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Can you find any pop songs about friendship and helping people which could be used by the European
Union? Sing these songs as a class.
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A nursery rhyme about animals helping one another is Three Blind Mice. Find the words and music for
this rhyme. Try to sing it together as a class. Do you think that you could make up a rhyme and tune of
your own about animals helping one another? If you cannot do that, try to compose another tune for Three
Blind Mice
Sheep May Safely Graze
In 1717 another great German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, was working as a court organist for Duke
Wilhelm of Weimar in Germany. He composed a cantata, a piece of music to be played at birthdays and
weddings, called Sheep May Safely Graze. Another prince asked Bach to become his court musician. Duke
Wilhelm was so offended that he threw Bach into prison for a month before allowing him to leave.
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Listen to a recording of Sheep May Safely Graze. Write down or say what you think of it.
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Find some pop songs about animals and sing them as a class.
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Find the words and music for the nursery rhyme Baa Baa, Black Sheep. Sing the rhyme as a class. Work in
small groups and try to compose other tunes for the nursery rhyme. Sing them or play them.
Handel’s Water Music
A third German composer was George Frederic Handel, the Director of Music for the Elector of Hanover. In
1712 Handel came to England for a holiday. He liked it so much he refused to go back and work for the Elector
of Hanover. Then, to Handel’s horror, the Elector became King George I of Great Britain. The King forgave
Handel and asked Handel to compose special music for a pageant being held on the River Thames when the
King and his courtiers travelled up the river in a fleet of barges. They were accompanied by 50 musicians
playing Handel’s Water Music on trumpets, horns, flutes and violins.
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Listen to a recording of the sixth and final movement of Handel’s Water Music. Write down or talk about
what you think of it.
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Draw a picture of the King, his courtiers and the musicians all going up the Thames in barges together.
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Can you find and sing any modern pop songs about water or journeys?
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Find the words and music of the nursery rhyme about three men in boat, Rub-a-dub-dub. Sing the rhyme
as a class. Work in groups to compose and sing or play another tune to go with the words.
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Into Europe
Background Information 3
Italy
Luxembourg
The Italian economy is dominated by the three cities of Genoa, Milan
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was established as an independent
and Turin in the north-west corner of the country. This area is closest
state in 1815. Because it is by far the smallest of the EU member
to the West European growth region and has benefited enormously
states, its economy is dependent on EU membership.
from Italy’s membership of the European Union.
Luxembourg has a large steel industry for a small country. It is based
While Rome (2.8 million) is the cultural and administrative centre of
upon the northern extension of the Lorraine ore-field. There are three
the country, Milan (1.8 million) is the leading industrial city. Cheese
steelworks near the southern border with France, but large imports of
making, with the famous Gorgonzola, Parmesan and Stracchino
coal are needed to sustain the industry.
cheeses, is found in Milan. But the city’s main industries are
engineering, textiles and chemicals.
Luxembourg has the thinly-populated Ardennes in the north, but
Luxembourg city and the steel-making district in the south have a
Turin (1.2 million) is the second industrial centre of Italy. It is an
moderately high density (about 250 people per km2). Over a quarter
excellent example of a company city, with Fiat of Turin employing
of Luxembourg’s population are foreigners.
186 000 workers, and thousands more are directly dependent upon it.
The landscape of Luxembourg offers variety and contrasts out of all
North-west Italy is one of the EU’s major warm-climate food-
proportion to the country’s size. The northern third of the country,
producing regions. The area around Vercelli and Novara is known as
known as the Oesling, comprises a corner of the Ardennes
the ‘Rice Bowl’, with over half a million hectares of land under rice.
Mountains, which lie mainly in southern Belgium. It is a rugged,
Until quite recently the Italian economy suffered from poor road links
with the rest of Europe. This problem has largely been overcome
however by the development of new road tunnels, such as the Mont
Blanc, and by the growing network of Autostrada.
The Italian Riviera is a major tourist region, with famous resorts like
Portofino, Rapallo and Santa Margherita.
The contrasts between northern and southern Italy are dramatic.
Italians refer to the area south of Rome as ‘Il Mezzagiorno’, the land
of the noon-day sun. It is a hot, barren region dominated by the
Apennine mountains. Many of the population live in very poor
conditions, struggling to earn a living from the land.
Since 1900 over 8 million Italians have emigrated from the south,
often to the northern cities, but many to the USA and Australia.
wildly-beautiful highland region studded with castles from 400 to
more than 1000 years old. The rivers Sûre and Our have cut deep
valleys across the landscape and many of the hillsides are covered
with dense forest.
The southern two-thirds of Luxembourg is known as the Bon Pays, or
Gutland (‘Good Land’). It is more densely populated than the Oesling
and contains the capital city, Luxembourg, as well as smaller
industrial cities such as Esch-sur-Alzette.
Luxembourg City rises in tiers with the upper (and older) sections of
the city separated from the lower-lying suburbs by the gorges of the
Alzette and Petrusses rivers. A new quarter housing many EU
buildings nestles in a picturesque site carved into the river valley’s
sandstone cliffs.
Luxembourg has become an international financial centre and a
With help from various EU funds, there are now some areas of growth
home to more than 160 banks. The main offices of the European
in the south, including the port of Naples and the Taranto iron and
Investment Bank are there. Luxembourg is a constitutional monarchy
steel works. Agricultural productivity has also improved and tourism
and the head of state is the Grand Duke Jean.
is becoming a major employer in the region.
Size
2800 km2
Italy is divided into 20 independent regions, all of which have their
Population
400 000
own governments.
Density
143 inhabitants per sq km
Major industries
Iron and steel, agriculture
Size
301 300 km2
Population
57.5 million
Density
190 inhabitants per sq km
Languages
French, German, Luxembourger
Major industries
Industrial manufacture, tourism,
Currency
Luxembourg franc
agriculture
Capital
Luxembourg
Main trading partners
France, Germany, UK
Luxembourg has no major airline
Language
Italian
Currency
Lira
Capital
Rome
Major airline
Alitalia
Main trading partners
Germany, France, Netherlands,
Belgium
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Into Europe
1 When you have read the story from Italy
about Pinocchio, the puppet who
became a boy, make your own Pinocchio
puppet.
Collect two large cotton reels for the
body, and a smaller cotton reel for the
head.
Make the arms and legs from tubes rolled
from cardboard. You will need two tubes
for each arm, and two for each leg.
Hands and feet may be cut from flat
cardboard.
Assemble the puppet by threading string
through the cotton reels and the
cardboard tubes.
2 Paint your puppet or clothe it to look like
Pinocchio.
3 See if you can attach more strings to the
arm and leg joints to make your puppet
move.
A Pinocchio puppet
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