Brief Description Objectives Materials and Resources Activity Description Internet Resources

• Grade level: Upper Elementary, Middle and High School

• Subject Area: Foreign Language

Brief Description

    Whole group discuss the Spanish-speaking country in South America. From library or WWW resources in team work, students will get general/profound knowledge about the Hispanich countries in the area.
Objectives

• Students will learn how to use library or Internet resources to chosen topics.
• Students will comprehend the collected information.
• Students will structure the information with texts and graphics for presentation.
• Students will share their research with whole group.

Materials and Resources Needed

1. Special Hardware Requirement: several PCs or Macintoshes with color monitors printer(s), CD-ROM.
2. Special Software Requirement: Operating system (MacOs, Window, Dos, Windows/95, etc.), application software (ClarisWorks, MS word, etc.), and WWW browsers (Netscape, etc.)
3. Network/Internet requirement: telephone lines, high-speed modems (14,400 or above), Web browser: Netscape or others.

Activity Description

• Ask students to pick up listed countries according to their interests.

• Divide class into small groups with different topics. Notice group size.

• Give studnets the bookmarks or book lists to do research on their topics.

• Allow students to read these information individually or with small group.

• Ask students to discuss the structure of collected information for the preparation of presentation.

• Reconvene as a whole group and have each group share what they researched with whole group.

• Assign student to write down their general and special impression on these countries as homework.

Internet Resources

• Latin America
  [http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Latin_America/]
  This web site from Yahoo search engine offers a rich information about these countries in Latin America. For students to find the Spanish-speaking countries will find the site helpful for their research.

• Latin America on the Net - Countries
  [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/]
  The web site from "LatinWorld" server introduces most Spanish-speaking coutries in Latin America from different perspectives like general information, culture, education and research, Internet resources, and news. The countries are as follows:
  • Argentian
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/Argentina/]

  • Bolivia
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/Bolivia/]

  • Chile
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/chile/]

  • Columbia
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/Colombia/]

  • Ecuador
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/ecuador/]

  • Paraguay
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/paraguay/]

  • Peru
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/peru/]

  • Uruguay
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/uruguay/]

  • Venezuela
    [http://www.latinworld.com/countries/venezuela/]

• Bolivian music
  [http://www.wam.umd.edu/~luis/home/bolivia/music-en.htm]
  This site offers some sound files for PC version to have readers have chance to listen to the musical variety and richness of the music from Bolivia.

• The Bolivia Music Page
  [http://cc.usu.edu/~slcpc/bmp/Main-E.html]
  The web site offers Bolivian interesting musical inforamtion as well as the Andrean folkorical music.

• Literature Argentina
  [http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~ernesto/Literatura.html]
  The web page lists the most famous literati in Argentian, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sabato, etc.