To figure out the time zone of your country click here to get a map of the 24 hour clock from GMT.

When doing your research, here are a few other places that may be great resources.

• National Geographic Traveler – magazine website
• National Geographic Adventure – magazine website
• Backpacker – magazine website
• Outside – magazine website
• Travel Channel – tv channel website
• Central America Travel

You should follow these directions!

6B – Finish your Where I’m From poem and put it in the WhereI’mFromBartlett folder, inside the Mrs. Bartlett Folder inside 11.

6H – Finish what Mrs. Holden asked you to do.

All 6th Graders – Read this email from Tory’s dad on Puma. They have cracked one of the main supports that holds the boat together. We want to send them good-luck emails.

1. Open Pages
2. Choose Blank
3. Save As> Name-PumaEmail
4. Write a good luck message to the crew
5. When you are done, drag it into either the 6B or 6H folder

We’re going snooping! Your mission is to find each of the items in your scrap book.

To get started, use this map to label all of the geographic features. This will be your first clue to help with the scavenger hunt.

Today, we are going in search of fossils so that we can begin to make our puzzles. Our goal is to practice on early fossils from BILLIONS of years ago. We will use dinosaurs for our final project.

Click here to find your first fossil.

Ready for another challenge? Click here to get another fossil.

Where are the regions of the US? Think you really know? Well, to test your knowledge, see if you can solve these riddles and drag the pictures onto the correct place holders in your Keynote file. Read the rest of this entry »

Directions

Imagine that you have been contacted by the tourism boards of the following countries. Your job is to create a new promotional video to increase tourists. You have each been assigned a country as well as a research assistant. For this project, the French students will work with the Spanish students. On the next project, the roles will switch.

You may use either Keynote or iMovie to create your final project. There are a few things that you need to do before you hit that part:

1. Follow the production schedule: research, story-board, multi-media search, production, editing, presentation.
2. You MUST document EVERYTHING photo/video/audio/information. We can publish these to the web, but have to make sure everything is credited.
3. The Spanish students will be recording the audio. Pronunciation counts!

Though we are working in teams, and the Spanish student is the lead, both team-members are responsible for the quality of the final product. Collaborate wisely!

8W

• Callie – Becky (Peru)
• Ben – Jack (Chile)
• Alycia – Kehoe (Ecuador)
• Neva – Stathi (Columbia)
• Johnny – Isabella L (Costa Rica)
• Helena – Arden (Buenos Aires)

8C

• Ryan  – Isabella D (Argentina – not Buenos Aires)
• Nick – Felicity (Guatemala)
• Ashlynn – Connor (Puerto Rico)
• Tim – Kat (Venezuela)
• Caroline – Bethany (Panama)
• Shoe – Alex (Bolivia)

Getting Started

These websites will get you going. Start here. Do NOT just start plunking things into Ask.com.

• Answers.com
• CIA World Fact Book
• Lonely Planet Destination Guides
• WorldAtlas.com

Once you have some preliminary info, then start to use Ask.com. Some good searches would include the specific names of locations, foods, museums, cities, customs, music, famous people, etc. Do not just type “Brazil”.

If you find a good image/audio/video along the way, add it to your resource file. Mrs. H will give you directions.

We will upload our photos to the NY Times Polling Place website.