Intro to CultureGrams Professional Development © Jo Davidsmeyer 2012

Accessing Sarasota Country eResources O Sarasota country provides all students, teachers, and parents free access to 25 online databases. O To access the databases go to at the bottom of the page, under Quicklinks Students, select Resources

Select the appropriate resource for your class: K-5 elementary Middle School High School For this demo, weve selected Middle School

Click on CultureGrams, if accessing from home, use the username/password sarasota

You select the age- appropriate version for your students. For this demo, we are using the World Edition. Also note on the bottom of the page, the links to Training Resources, Teaching Activities PDF, Curriculum Standards PDF. Please visit these links for support information.Training Resources Teaching Activities PDFCurriculum Standards PDF

You can select a country by clicking on the world map or entering it in the drop-down box

(NOTE: Here I would walk teachers through the various features of the database, answering questions as they come up)

Take a few minutes to step through the database on your own computer. When done for this session, please complete the survey at