You are on an important mission: your class will be purchasing an amazing gift for your teacher - a trip to the Caribbean island of her choice! Your job is to do research on one of the countries in order to help your teacher choose. Using the internet and books in your library, collect facts and make a beautiful poster or brochure of the place you are studying so your teacher will be able to choose before the end of the school year. The creator of the winning poster or brochure gets to go along with your teacher!
Now go to the TASK.
Your travel brochure needs to have:
1. A map of the your country/island
At least 5 of the following:
2. Tourist attractions
3. Information about the climate/weather: try to include high and low temperatures, rainy and dry seasons, hurricane seasons.
4. Foods eaten in your country/island
5. Entertainment: what do people do for fun in your country?
6. Some facts about well-known beaches on your country/island
7. Information about festivals on your island
8. A final paragraph that sums up why your teacher should choose the island/country you have written about.
Each set of facts will need a picture to go along with it.
The pictures can be drawings of pictures you find in books or on
the internet. Somewhere on your brochure you need to have a map of your
country/island.
Now, go to PROCESS.
First, print out the Check List. This will help you organize your work.
You will need to make a Caribbean folder to hold all of your work. Put your name on the folder and label it with your name and the name of your country/island.
Click HERE to see your NOTES SHEET. Print it out and use it for writing your notes.
When you have checked off all of the boxes on your check list, you are ready to create your brochure or poster.
Now, look at RESOURCES.
Click on a link below to find information about your country/island.
Don't forget to take notes on your NOTES SHEET and remember to print any pictures you need.
Yahooligans! A great place to start your search!
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
The CIA World Factbook - use this to find information about any
country in the world!
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Destinations: from Lonely Planet - fact sheets, slide shows, maps and more
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/
Factmonster is a great place to start any research...www.factmonster.com
KidsClick! is a web search engine made by librarians -Mr. St.Germain's favorite search site! http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
Start with these websites - don't forget to write down your sources!
(Links Updated 05/11/2006)
Now, go to EVALUATION.
Use this page to give yourself a grade for your work. Print this out before you start so you will know how the grading works.
Click the mountain to get the grade page.
Let's finish up this project - head for the CONCLUSION.
I hope you have enjoyed learning new things about your Caribbean place! Did you convince your teacher to go there? Will you be going along? When are you leaving? HAVE A GREAT TRIP!
Leave me a message here to let me know what you thought of this project.
In using this webquest with younger students, or just to save time, I recommend copying the check list and notes page and fitting them onto 2 pages using a word processor. I am using this webquest with third graders and have found that they benefit from a hands-on lesson on using the internet: first I introduce the webquest and explain that the internet is a way for us to connect and get information from computers from all over the world. We go over using scroll bars, back and forward buttons and the frame menu on the left side of the screen. I let them know that we will be connecting to computers in Japan and will gather information on notes sheets. They will then take the notes and use them to create a poster or travel brochure.
Please send any comments and/or suggestions! Thank you.
This WebQuest is based on Bernie Dodge's Model.
Web Design by David St.Germain
Bugbee Elementary School
West Hartford, CT 05/11/2006
Email at Dave_St.Germain@whps.org