Trip Around the World - Online Scavenger Hunt

Trip Around the World - Online Scavenger Hunt

***write your responses on a blank sheet of paper***

1. Visit each everycutlure.com (everyculture.com)... Spend 10 minutes on this website.

2. Visit the CIA - World Fact Book website... Pick three countries to read about... List the country and three facts from that country

3. Find a current event from each continent (must be news from the past two months)... Summarize the event, write a personal connection, and cite the news source

4. Online Resources... Visit 4 of the following websites... Write down 1interesting thing about each website...

• The World on a Plate
  Foods and recipes in Different Countries
  http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations
• Did You Know - from Meeting in Rome 2008
• Countries and Flags MultCo Homework Center
  http://www.multcolib.org/homework/cntryhc.html
• United Streaming Discovery Education
  Use Password: A286-3176 to creat account. Watch a video about your country.
  http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
• eThemes
  Search C for country
  http://www.emints.org/ethemes/
• eThemes
  Search your Country for Info
  http://www.emints.org/ethemes/
• UN Cyber Schoolbus
  United Nations Info on every Country
  http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp

TO DO TUESDAY!!!

NY Times - 52 Destinations Around the World

-Read through these places in the world

-Pick 3 that are of high interest to you. Find two websites for each location that provide more information and detail about that place... Write down the name of those two websites

80 Unreal Places in the World!
explore this awesome slideshow!
Write down destinations in your notes that seem especially interesting!