Croatia joins the EU - but can your students identify where the EU countries are on a map?

Whilst the UK appears to remain the most Eurosceptic of the EU member states, other countries are lining up to join the exclusive club we're so keen to distance ourselves from. I suppose it is like having a season ticket to watch Manchester United when you are a Manchester City fan.Croatia is the latest member to join the EU despite all of the recent Economic problems in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus, and joins the party just as the collective is about to make a huge trade agreement with the USA.As an interesting lesson-starter (this activity will last about 10 minutes), are your students able to identify the location of all 28 member states if they are presented with a 'blank' map of Europe. The Balkan and Baltic states pose the greatest challenge!The Powerpoint file accessed below poses that question. Teachers can run the show and then reveal the 28 countries on their screens or give out the student worksheets (with corresponding map) before going through the correct answers. Note - there are two possible worksheets - the first asks students to apply a number to the given list of the 28 states and the second is blank and asks students to fill in the names of the 28 states in the 'map' order (and is therefore a little more challenging).Click on this link to access the file. This link will take you to a Google Drive post where you can then download the file to your own computer.