THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF SPAIN

Our country is divided into 17 Autonomous Communities and 2 Autonomous Cities.

They are governed by Statutes of autonomy that define their name, boundaries, symbols and language. They also share responsabilities with the Central Government of Madrid.


These activities bellow can help you to study where they are and their names. Click on:

PUZZLE OF COMMUNITIES

PUZZLE OF PROVINCES

STUDY THE CAPITAL OF THE AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES

CAPITALS OF THE SPANISH COMMUNITIES

After studying you can check your learning with this other games. I hope that you find them helpful.


Where are the Autonomous Communities in Spain?

Can you type their names?

Have you learnt where the provinces are in Spain?

Which is this province?

Which is this capital?

Check your learning about Capitals again

PROVINCES QUIZ

POPULATION

A population is the number of all the organism of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.
If you want to learn more about human population, watch these videos about it.

WORLDOMETER

Now click on and read FACTS ABOUT POPULATION

HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE IN THE PLANET WHEN YOU WERE BORN?

FLING THE TEACHER POPULATION GAME

EUROPE RELIEF

Europe's relief has large areas of lowwlands and plains in the north and east and mountains in the south.

There are three main zones:

• The Great European Plain: from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains.
• Old mountains: the Pyrenees and the Scandinavian Mountains, less tan 1000 m high
  
• Young mountains: the Alps, the Apennines, the Carpathians, the Balkan and the Caucasus Mountains, more than 3.000 m high.

Now click on these links and learn all of them.

LEARNING TIME

CHECKING TIME

PLAY IN TIME

PLAY AGAIN


Now you can try and match ALL EUROPE PHYSICAL FEATURES

RIVERS OF EUROPE

Europe has many rivers with varied characteristics depending on what watershed they flow into. There are 4 watersheds and these are their rivers characteristics:

ARTIC OCEAN   these rivers are long and have regular course 

ATLANTIC OCEAN    these rivers are short and have high volume of water

MEDITERRANEAN SEA   these rivers are short and have an irregular flow

CASPIAN SEA  and BLACK SEA these rivers are long and regular

CLICK ON AND LEARN ABOUT THEM

EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER 

CHECK YOUR BODIES OF WATER LEARNING 

Rivers always depend on the climate of their watershed and the degree of precipitations.

Now click on and learn where they are

RIVERS OF EUROPE LEARNING

CHECK YOUR LEARNING



READ MORE ABOUT EUROPEAN MAIN RIVERS



KEEP PLAYING AND LEARNING

ANOTHER RIVERS GAME

HAVE YOU ALREADY LEARNT ALL?

GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE

Do you remember the countries of Europe? Click on the links bellow and learn them

COUNTRIES OF EUROPE

CAPITALS OF EUROPE

Now click on and check your learning

CLICK ON THE COUNTRY

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES GAMES

DO YOU ALREADY KNOW ALL OF THEM?

CAPITALS GAME

CLICK ON THESE CAPITALS

EUROPEAN COUNTRY BORDERS

MOUNTAINS IN SPAIN

We can firmly say that Spain is a mountainous country.
There are many mountains ranges and a big plateau called Meseta and it is divided into two submesetas by Sistema Central and covers a lot of the peninsula's interior.

Click on and study the RELIEF OF SPAIN

WHERE IS IT?

Now check your learning CHECK IT

WHERE IS IT?



 

SPANISH HYDROLOGY

There are about 1800 rivers in Spain although some of them are dry at certain times of the year.

Watch these videos to learn about our rivers and the three watershed caracteristics:
ATLANTIC, CANTABRIAN AND MEDITERRANEAN

Click on these bellow activities to learn the spanish rivers

STUDY THE RIVERS

CLICK ON THE RIVERS

WHAT IS ITS NAME?

WHERE IS IT?

WHAT IS ITS NAME? 2

WHERE IS IT? 2

THE EARTH'S LANDFORMS

Hi everyone,

Click on this link and study the definitions of LANDFORMS

UNIT 5 POLITICAL AND PHYSICAL SPAIN

Hi again,
We have just come back to Spain to study its political and physical maps.

Let's start with the Community flags and coat of Arms, the two political symbols.

First, study them, then play and check your learning on these following links.

PLAY THIS QUIZ

ANOTHER QUIZ

LET'S EXPLORE EUROPE!!!

Here you all can explore Europe from your chair, click on and download a book

Free Book

Play this game on the kid's corner      LET'S EXPLORE EUROPE GAME

 

EU CURRENCY

The euro is the currency used in 19 of the EU member states since 2002.
We call these area the Eurozone.
There are still some of the EU countries that have not adopted the euro, such as The United Kingdom

Click on and see the EURO POSTER

Now you can read a story on THIS EURO BOOKLET

Here you can learn about the COINS AND BANK NOTES

There are seven banknotes, from €5 to €500, and eight coins, from 1 cent to €2

The European Central Bank (ECB), located in Germany that maintain price stability in the Eurozone.

And finally you can play and enjoy a bit more with THE EURO GAME.

You will need your parents email address to register and play. I hope you have fun.

EUROPE

Here you have some links where you can play and learn the European countries and their capitals.
I hope you enjoy them.

COUNTRIES GAME

NOW CHECK YOUR LEARNING

DRAG EACH COUNTRY ON THE MAP

DRAG COUNTRIES GAME

CLICK ON THE COUNTRY

CAN YOU TYPE THE THREE FIRST LETTERS?

ONCE AGAIN

 CLICK ON AND LEARN THE EUROPEAN CAPITALS

MATCH THE CAPITAL TO ITS COUNTRY

CHECK YOUR LEARNING

CAN YOU TYPE THEIR FIRST LETTERS?

BREXIT

What does Brexit mean?

It is a word that has become used as a shorthand way of saying the UK leaving the EU - merging the words Britain and exit to get Brexit, in a same way as a possible Greek exit from the euro was dubbed Grexit in the past.

Why is Britain leaving the European Union?

A referendum - a vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part - was held on Thursday 23 June, 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union. Leave won by 51.9% to 48.1%. The referendum turnout was 71.8%, with more than 30 million people voting.

CLICK ON AND READ MORE ABOUT IT

SHOULD THEY LEAVE?

                                                   PARODY FROM ONE OF THE 48%

HOW DOES EU WORK?

Watch these videos and learn 

UNIT 4 EUROPEAN UNION

Hi everyone,
We have just started a new topic about EU.
Spain is one of the 28 members since the 1st of July of 1985 when Spain and Portugal joined under a signed Treaty.

Click on these links, learn and play

WHAT IS IT?

EUROZONE ONLINE MAP

AN INTRODUCTION QUIZ  answer some questions, read and learn

EU COUNTRIES FLAGS MATCHING GAME

 

THE FOUNDING FATHERS 

EU SYMBOLS 

DEMOCRACY

Watch this video and learn how democracy started in the human history and more.

HUMAN RIGHTS

All human beings have the same rights all over the world over any government or state legislation.

Have you ever heard about  THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
Watch these videos and learn

What are our rights?

Our rights are what every human being deserves, no matter who they are or where they live, so that we can live in a world that is fair and just.
Some of our rights
Everyone has the right to have:

• safety
• education
• shelter (somewhere to live)
• warmth
• food
• clothing
• personal space
• freedom of speech
• to be different
• to feel comfortable
• equal opportunities (given the chance to be what you want to be whether you are rich or poor, whatever religion or race).

Of course since these rights are for everybody, that means we all have to take on responsibility too.

SPAIN TODAY

These activities are about our state, its gonvern and organisation. They are also useful to improve your english skills and study social at the same time.


CLICK ON AND LEARN

CHECK YOUR LEARNING AND WRITE

READ THESE QUESTIONS AND LISTEN, THEN WRITE THE CORRECT ANSWERS

MATCH THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ON TIME

ORGANISATION AND SYMBOLS

Our country is divided into 17 Autonomous Communities and 2 Autonomous Cities.
They are governed by Statutes of autonomy that define their name, boundaries, symbols and language. They also share responsabilities with the Central Government of Madrid.

Click on and check your learning on these map activities

MAP ACTIVITY 1

MAP ACTIVITY 2 

TYPE THEM ON 

PROVINCES OF SPAIN 

Do you remember THEIR CAPITALS?


Spain also has a flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem (La Marcha Real)

 

THE GOVERNMENT

Spain is a parlamentary monarchy with the king Felipe VI as the head of the state and simbolically Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish Armed Forces.

It is also a democratic state, based on national sovereignty or rightful status, independence to govern and decide.

The Crown is hereditary. It means that Felipe VI directly inhertited the right to be our king from the ninenteenth of June of 2014.