You will be assigned a partner to work with for this presentation and as a partnership you will choose a Spanish speaking country for your presentation. After you have decided come up and check it off with me so that no two groups have the same country. The countries you can pick from are: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain. For some of the bigger countries like Spain, Argentina, and Mexico, I will allow you to pick a specific region of the country to do your presentation on, which will allow more than one group to have the country, BUT I will only allow this for 4 groups aka only two groups can have the same country but different regions. The main goal of this Quest is to allow you to get to know more about each of the countries. Each partner in the group will have two roles for your presentation. You will decide in your groups who will do which part. One partner will be in charge of researching the dress, food, and customs of your country (products, practices, perspectives of the country's culture), the other partner will research the geography of the country (important places to visit, things to do, etc.). You will work together to complete the webquest and presentation and make sure that it fits the standards of the rubric found on the Evaluation page.
Some ways that you can present your country: (If you think of a different way that you and your partner would like to present, email me or talk to me in class during the time I give you to work on this so that I can know and approve)
Glogster: Basically a digital poster board where you can add pictures, video clips and lots of information in a creative way. You can sign up for a 7 day free trial to create the glog, but make sure that both you and your partner have access to the username and password during that week so you can finish. Glogster.com A short 5 minute video presentation: You are your partner can create a short 5 minute video presentation. You and your partner can either star in this video or just record your voices.
Create a printed Travel Brochure to hand out to your fellow classmates. (Be creative with this and use your own words, also put citations on the back of the pamphlet) Powerpoint: Again should be no longer than 5 minutes when presented.
Everything you write or speak in your presentation should be IN SPANISH. Anything in English will be marked down on points.
Some Resources you can use for your presentation: Travel in 10: 10 Minute Travel Podcast
Latin America geographia - Information on several Latin American countries: places of interest, culture, travel tips, etc. http://www.geographia.com/indx05.htm
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - This site contains all types of travel information including: vaccinations for specific countries, diseases related to travel in certain countries, illness and injury abroad, and access to Yellowbook (a travelers health book that allows you to create custom reports on your desired country). http://www.cdc.gov/travel/vaccinat.htm
Lonely planet - A few pieces of information you will find useful such as the currency used in the county and whether or not they observe daylight savings time.http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/
U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Consulor Affairs - A lot of information here: travel tips, travel warnings, terrorist information, customs information, travel brochures, and passport information.http://travel.state.gov/travel/travel_1744.html
You will be assigned a partner to work with for this presentation and as a partnership you will choose a Spanish speaking country for your presentation. After you have decided come up and check it off with me so that no two groups have the same country.
The countries you can pick from are:
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain.
For some of the bigger countries like Spain, Argentina, and Mexico, I will allow you to pick a specific region of the country to do your presentation on, which will allow more than one group to have the country, BUT I will only allow this for 4 groups aka only two groups can have the same country but different regions. The main goal of this Quest is to allow you to get to know more about each of the countries.
Each partner in the group will have two roles for your presentation. You will decide in your groups who will do which part.
One partner will be in charge of researching the dress, food, and customs of your country (products, practices, perspectives of the country's culture), the other partner will research the geography of the country (important places to visit, things to do, etc.). You will work together to complete the webquest and presentation and make sure that it fits the standards of the rubric found on the Evaluation page.
Some ways that you can present your country: (If you think of a different way that you and your partner would like to present, email me or talk to me in class during the time I give you to work on this so that I can know and approve)
Glogster: Basically a digital poster board where you can add pictures, video clips and lots of information in a creative way. You can sign up for a 7 day free trial to create the glog, but make sure that both you and your partner have access to the username and password during that week so you can finish. Glogster.com
A short 5 minute video presentation: You are your partner can create a short 5 minute video presentation. You and your partner can either star in this video or just record your voices.
Here is another site you can use.
Kizoa.com
Create a printed Travel Brochure to hand out to your fellow classmates. (Be creative with this and use your own words, also put citations on the back of the pamphlet)
Powerpoint: Again should be no longer than 5 minutes when presented.
Everything you write or speak in your presentation should be IN SPANISH. Anything in English will be marked down on points.
Some Resources you can use for your presentation:
Travel in 10: 10 Minute Travel Podcast
Culturegrams
Xe.com - The Universal Currency Converter. http://www.xe.com/ucc/
Latin America geographia - Information on several Latin American countries: places of interest, culture, travel tips, etc. http://www.geographia.com/indx05.htm
Travel Guides http://www.fodors.com/, http://travel.roughguides.com/default.html, http://www.frommers.com/
CIA World Factbook - You can find maps and weather info here.http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - This site contains all types of travel information including: vaccinations for specific countries, diseases related to travel in certain countries, illness and injury abroad, and access to Yellowbook (a travelers health book that allows you to create custom reports on your desired country). http://www.cdc.gov/travel/vaccinat.htm
Lonely planet - A few pieces of information you will find useful such as the currency used in the county and whether or not they observe daylight savings time.http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/
U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Consulor Affairs - A lot of information here: travel tips, travel warnings, terrorist information, customs information, travel brochures, and passport information.http://travel.state.gov/travel/travel_1744.html
Tourism Offices World Wide Directory http://www.towd.com/
Travel and Tourism Blog in Spanish Despegar.com
To assist you with creating citations try these sites. http://citationmachine.net/