14 August - 20 August

EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

• We are EXPLORING and investigating to understand whakapapa and tūrangawaewae.
• We are EXPLORING our rights and responsibilities as citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand through football and futsal.
• We are EXPLORING...

Women’s World Cup 2023 – 32 country countdown 

The FIFA Women’s World Cup is an international football tournament held every four  years. 

The 9th competition will take place in Australia and New Zealand in July and  August 2023. Thirty two teams qualified for the competition and these were divided  into four groups of eight. 

Here are the 32 countries.  

1. Highlight in yellow the countries in the table below who you have heard of. 

2. Highlight in blue the countries in the table below you have visited.

Women’s World Cup 2023 – 32 country countdown 

There are seven continents in the world:
Africa, Antarctica, Asia,  Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. 

Use an atlas to  find the correct continent for each of the 32 qualifying countries. 

Country	Continent
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China PR
Colombia
Costa Rica
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Haiti
Ireland   (Republic of)
Italy
Jamaica
Japan

Country	Continent
Korea Republic
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Panama
Philippines
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United States
Vietnam
Zambia

Use an atlas to find ten of the countries from the table below. 

 World cup challenge 2  

Construct a bar graph to show how many of the 32 countries are from  each of the seven continents.

Women’s World Cup 2023 – 32 country countdown 

World cup challenge 3  

Use an atlas to label the map with ten of the 32 qualifying countries. Get a map from your teacher and add it to your book.