1. Around the World EDU204 Information Technology in Teaching, NSC Dr. Graziano September 14, 2011 4 th and 5th grades

2.  Congratulations you have just been chosen out of thousands of candidates to travel anywhere around the world! Many have wonder about someone's culture, what they eat, their language, their celebrations, their believes. Lucky you, because you will have the opportunity to travel to any place in the world and find out for yourself!

3. 1. Your task will be to take a journal with you in your travel to this new country. (Journal will be provided by me.) 2. I will assign you a country and you will research information about your country using the internet. 3. You have to inform your classmates about everything you have learn about your country in three paragraphs. (You will have three class days to research for the information plus a library day to check out books; if you need more time you can work on it at home.)

4. 4. You will also have a week to make a 3D poster of an event that is celebrated in your country. (two days to do it in class and one week to do it for homework.) 5. Once your project is completed you will leave your poster in front of your desk with your notebook. The whole class will go around and see each others countries and read about them. We will travel around the world!!

5.  First I will randomly provide you with a country. I will randomly choose a country out of a cup and that will be the country you will be visiting. Make sure to write down the name of your country in your journal!!

6.  You will go on the internet to gather information about your country.  These websites I provided you with are helpful because they have all the information that you will be researching for.

7.  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107264.h tml?pageno=3 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107264.h tml?pageno=3  http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html  http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112083/ http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112083/  http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html  http://www.nettravels.eu/ http://www.nettravels.eu/

8.  On the first page of your journal I want you to write a paragraph describing how your country looks like, describe the landscape. I want you to make me feel as if I was with you in this trip. Tell me if there's palm trees, beaches, mountains. I want you to also provide the population and a picture of the country!

9.  In the second page you have to write another paragraph and inform your classmates about the country’s religions and also about historical places they can visit. Make sure you provide pictures!!  The third paragraph should be about ONE Celebration in your country. I want you to tell me what is being celebrated, the foods they have in the celebration, games, dances, or anything they do in the celebration. Make sure you provide a picture!

10.  The last part of this project is creating a 3D poster about the celebration you deiced to write about in your journal. The poster has to be colorful and creative.

11.  Writing The three paragraphs have 5 to 7 sentences….......…………………………..30 points The grammar and punctuation is use correctly………………………………………..20 points  Creativity The cover of your journal represents your country…………………………………………….5 points You have pictures for every paragraph you wrote …………………………………………….15 points Your poster is creative, colorful and it represents your celebration………….30 points

12.  If you need help make sure to ask me. I will try to help you in any way that I can.  I will also have the instructions in Spanish and pass them out to anyone who needs them.  I will work one on one with students who need individual attention as well as assign volunteers that have finish their project early to help out their classmate if needed.

13. We now have travel around the world! In this journey we learn how to research information online, how to write descriptive paragraphs, and about different cultures.

14.  Workcited  http://www.icanflourish.com/ http://www.icanflourish.com/  http://www.jamesaallen.com/wordpress/wp- content/uploads/2008/12/3d_poster.jpg http://www.jamesaallen.com/wordpress/wp- content/uploads/2008/12/3d_poster.jpg