Activities:

•        Students will take a Pre-Test on cultural aspects and economic issues of Hispanic countries.

•      Students will initially begin their journey by searching the Web for a definition of the word    "culture" and "economics".See Resources on Students' Corner page.
•      Next, the students will search the Internet resources to find information related to facts about a country they have chosen.
•      Students will produce a hard copy of a map of their country to be used to relate geographic information.
•      Next, students will  find information on the Web concerning a particular role that they will play on their journey to the particular country.
•      Students, then, will use the information found in the role they have chosen to indicate cultural and social factors about the people of their country.
•     Next, students will use the information about their role to indicate particular economic issues of their country.
•     Students will indicate ,from their research, correlation's between cultural factors and economic issues.
•     Suudents will be asked to evaluate the value of the particular Sites that were used in their projects as to their usefulness in providing necessary information and further resources.
•     As a final stage, students will present their findings to their classmates in the form of an oral presentation using PowerPoint, graphics, role-playing, video, or any other media form. A written essay will accompany this presentation.
•     Student teams will prepare a Written Examination for their peers based on the findings of their projects.
•     Student teams and Teacher may wish to create a Web Page relating their findings to all.
•     Student teams may wish to set up E-mail connections or Virtual Classroom hook-ups with Chat-rooms to communicate and authenticate their findings with students from the particular country selected.