Culture Research     

            Around the world there are a variety of countries that speak Spanish as their main language. The cultures of these countries can vary widely. We will become experts on a number of these cultures and compare them to the culture of the United States.

Spanish Speaking Countries 

This project should incorporate basic information on Spanish speaking countries. You will be assigned a country in class, and you will create a PowerPoint presentation about your assigned country. You will research your Spanish Speaking country, in the computer lab, for seven days. You will use sources such as Culture-Grams, Print Electronic Encyclopedias, Note taking device, sample project about Ecuador, interactive websites, etc. Finally, on the seventh day you will have your project ready to upload to Moodle.

Requirements:

• Your PowerPoint presentation must have 5 slides
• Word Cited: Each page should have a citation that shows where you gather information and pictures from. Please use www.easybib.com to generate your citations.
• Culture-Gram from home:  Username: ......... & Password: .........(Please go to Moodle to find this information) http://online.culturegrams.com/kids/index.php

·         Day 1

We will review how to use the power point program and we will also explore some of the web sources provided for your research such as www.cia.gov and http://online.culturegrams.com/kids/index.php.

We will look at public domain vs. non-public domain websites, copyright, and how to cite sources.

We will answer the questions on our scavenger hunt during class, this will be a classroom activity/homework.

·         Day 2

Slide 1. - Your name, name of the country, and a picture of the main attractions of your country.  Make sure to label the picture and be clear as why this is an important picture. Site the page where you got the picture and facts from.

·         Day 3

Slide 2 - Flag and map of your country identifying the capital city. Briefly describe the flag. Site the page where you got the pictures and facts from

 ·         Day 4 (Insert-Smart Art-Choose a chart from the category “relationship”)

Slide 4. - Type of government; name of the current president, currency, exports. Compare and contrast your Spanish Speaking country with the U.S.A

·         Day 5 (Insert-Smart Art-Choose a chart from the category “List”)

Slide 5.- National holidays, religion, food, music,  and sports. Choose pictures, videos, recipes and music from the culture-grams, cite your sources.

·         Day 6 (Insert-Smart Art-Choose the chart you prefer)

Slide 3.- Geography notes, weather, location,  natural hazards/disasters .

Day 7

Share amazing/wow facts about your country in this slide. In culture-grams you will find many facts

Choose effects & transitions for your power point.

Link music, videos, recipes and photos to your PowerPoint.

Upload your power point file to Moodle.

Recommendations:

1.        Save your Power Point into your student folder (J drive)

2.       Save your Power Point in your USB flash drive.

3.       Use the codes I gave you for accent marks.

Alt + 164 = ñ &  Alt + 162 = ó

4.        Your note taking device should have citations and information about your country. Name of books, author and page # as well as web addresses.

5.        Please use the following websites to link pictures, music and videos to your power point:

http://online.culturegrams.com/kids/index.php

www.360cities.net

Practice:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/South_America_Geography.htm

http://www.trentu.ca/academic/modernlanguages/spanish/masarriba/nationality.html

Vocabulario

1. el nombre                                _______________________________________
2. la fotografía                             _______________________________________
3. el país                                      _______________________________________
4. la capital                                  _______________________________________
5. la bandera                               _______________________________________
6. el escudo                                 _______________________________________
7. la comida                                _______________________________________
8. la bibliografía                           _______________________________________
9. la(s) montaña(s)                      _______________________________________
10. los productos                           _______________________________________
11. el clima                                    _______________________________________
12. el gobierno                              _______________________________________
13. la moneda                               _______________________________________
14. las celebraciones                    _______________________________________
15. la religión                                 _______________________________________
16. la música                                 _______________________________________
17. los deportes                             _______________________________________
18. el presidente                            _______________________________________
19. el himno nacional                    _______________________________________
20. los desastres naturales           _______________________________________

Códigos

Alt + 160 = á

Alt + 130 = é

Alt + 161 = í

Alt + 162= ó

Alt + 163 = ú

Alt + 164 = ñ

Alt + 165 = Ñ

Alt + 173 = ¡ (beginning exclamation mark)

Alt + 168= ¿

Also you can go to “Tools” –Language- Set language- Spanish (Spain Modern Sort)