Today we will collect information about the country your immigrant came from. For each of the quest items below, you will place your findings in a blog entitled Immigration Webquest. In the description, I would like you to copy and paste the quest items below.
1. Find a picture of someone from your immigrants country on the NY public library website.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
2. Find out who rules your country now and who ruled it when your immigrant left.
http://rulers.org/map.html
3. Find out what region your country is in.
What currency they use for money?
What is one neighboring country?
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp
4. Compare statistics between several countries using this website. Include your country
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/advanced.asp
5. Find a national symbol and or a flag for your country.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/midcoun.html
6. What are some of the favorite foods from that country. ( extra credit can you find a recipe ?)
http://www.foodmuseum.com/permanent.html#origin
http://recipes.wuzzle.org/
7. Can you find a game, holiday, or hobby popular in your country?
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/searchkids.pl?searchtype=subject&keywords=holidays&title=Holidays+(General)
8. Find a paper from the country. ( or one close to it) Can you tell what the big news articles are ? Download a picture from the newspaper.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
(click on the map view button this may not work in firefox)
these are the challenges
What my country means to me.
June 2005 IPW