Mrs. Vollaro Grade 6
Latin America Project
| Argentina | Belize | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Columbia | Costa Rica | Cuba | Dominion Republic |
| Ecuador | El Salvador | French Guiana | Guatemala | Guyana | Haiti | Honduras | Jamaica | Mexico |
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Nicaragua | Panama | Paraguay | Peru | Suriname | Uruguay |
Venezuela |  |
Introduction: Latin America is an area rich with history and culture. There are many traditions of Latin America that have been shaped by the geography and history of this area of the world. Which Latin American country would you most like to visit? Using a power point presentation can you convince your classmates to choose your country to visit?
Task:
Your task will be to locate your Latin American
country and determine the following:
1. Where your country is located and what type of physical features it has?
2. What is the capital and its major cities?
3. How is your country's government organized? Who are the leaders?
4. What are the natural
resources, industries and exported products from your Country?
5. What are the people like in your country? Include information on language,
religion, occupations and daily life of your country's people.
6 . Explain the foods people eat and the clothes they wear. Include information
on any art forms your country is noted for.
7. Find a picture
of your country's flag and download it to your compute r..
8. Find a map of your country and download it to your computer.
After researching your Country, you will create a power
point presentation.
Your Power Point presentation should contain various graphics, text
sizes, sounds, and transitions. Your presentation must include at least one
image from the internet and a bibliography of all resources used.
Before doing your research, let's see how much you know about Latin America. Play this game to see if you can find the countries: http://www.maps.com/games/quiz-latin.html. Here are other Latin America related games you can play:
Latin
America word search
Unscramble these Latin American Countries
Capitals quiz
Process: After you have been assigned your Country, you will begin your research. To find information click on these web sites OR refer to the references listed in General Resources below.
1. Fill out the research form that was given to you by Mrs, Vollaro.
2. Use your research form to create a power point presentation.
3. Create a bibliography of book and internet resources which you used to do your research.
Internet Resources
Country
Info
Fact
Monster
Nettrekker
CIA
Factbook
Country
Flags
http://www.theodora.com/flags.html
Country Maps
Xpeditions
General Resources
Culture Grams
Belize, by Charles J. Shields
Costa Rica, by Charles J. Shields
El Salvador
by Charles J. Shields
Guatemala by Charles J. Shields
Honduras by Charles J. Shields
Jamaica by Colleen Madonna Flood Williams
Kids Discover
Mexico
Nicaragua by Charles J. Shields
Panama by Charles J. Shields