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By
Norma
Thompson-Pomerleau
Adapted
from a Webquest by:
Sharon Hart, Deborah Burch, Melanie Cox, & Cheryl Taylor
Introduction | Task | Resources | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion
You and a friend are going
to visit a family friend in a Latin American Country. Before you pack your
bags, you need to learn as much as you can about the country in order to prepare
for your trip and impress your friend's family.
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To prepare for your
adventure, use the five themes of geography to research your friend's country.
You will find these five themes fully detailed in the worksheet to be downloaded
below. The five themes are:
Location
Place
Relationships within Places
Movement
Regions
Then use your information to create a multimedia (PowerPoint) presentation.
The Process
To accomplish the task, you
will follow the procedures below.
- You will be assigned a country to research.
- Once you have your country, download
and print out the worksheet, and checklist from the resources section
below.
- Research your country to find the answers to the questions on the
worksheet.
- As you are completing the questions for each theme, please write
down the bibliographic information for the resources you used. For
bibliographic formats, you may follow the link below to the bibliographic
information site.
- As you are answering the questions, be on the lookout for graphics
to save for your multimedia presentation.
- After you have collected all of your information, use the graphic
organizer to record your information.
- After organizing the information, you will create a multimedia
presentation (PowerPoint), which you will share with the class. Your
presentation will include the information you found on the five themes and
any graphics you saved.
- Submit your multimedia presentation for evaluation by your
teacher.
Resources
Use the
resources in this section to collect data for your project. Be sure to check
your media center collection for resources. They will be on reserve for the
Sra. Pomerleau’s class. You may not need to use all of the resources listed,
but be sure you have adequately answered the questions on the worksheet. Remember to write down the bibliographic information for the
resources you use.
Worksheets:
Take a Trip to Latin America Worksheet- a list of questions for you to answer using the five themes of geography as your guide.
Take A trip to Latin America Checklist - a checklist for you to use for evaluation.
Websites:
http://www.unn.ac.uk/central/isd/cite/elec.htm
A site where you can download bibliographic formats for your research.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
World Fact Book, gives a listing of countries students can research.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/americas/
Site where students can print out maps of their country.
A categorical list of topics on Latin American Countries.
http://www.surdelsur.com/indexingles.html
An
Allows students to rank and compare countries on population, growth, literacy, arable land and many more traits.
http://www.latinworld.com/norte/index.html
Latin World site, students can search by country to find information.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html
Latin American studies site, includes links to other countries.
http://www.wcpworld.com:80/future/culture.htm
Students can learn about the diversity of the world's cultures in this web site. This site includes a hotlist of links to any country in the world.
A search engine where students can input their countries name and receive a list of links.
A search engine where students can ask real questions and receive answers.
The students/kids part of ask jeeves. Students can ask real questions and receive answers.
A search engine where students can just type in a question, using normal English, and be directed to sites that answer that question.
BE SURE TO USE OUR
Encyclopedia Britannica
Ebsco - a periodical database, where students can find magazine articles.
Grolier & The New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedias
World Book Encyclopedia Online
Evaluation
Students will be evaluated
on their multimedia project using the checklist downloaded from the resources
section.
Now that you have learned about the country
you will be visiting, pack your bags and get ready to go!