Ciao, Italia (Hello, Italy) -- Issue 4 -- Jan. 21-27
This week's standard: Students understand the physical and human characteristics of places. (Geography: People and Places) Students understand how culture and experience influence people*s perceptions of places and regions. (Geography: People and Places)
Activities:
- Make an Italy collage with newspaper words and pictures about Italian foods, products, people and places.
- Draw a line down the center of a piece of paper to make two columns.
Label one column "People" and the other "Places." Now list important Italian people under the first column and interesting Italian places under the second column.
- What can you identify to show that Italy (a) has a long cultural tradition, (b) manufactures many different products, (c) is popular with tourists, and (d) has many good foods?
- Collect several newspaper stories about events in modern Italy. Paste each story on a piece of paper. Then write a paragraph for each story explaining how Italy*s history or geography has influenced the current news.
- Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about one of Italy*s famous cities. Select a city to research. Use these questions to guide your research: Where is the city located? When was it founded? What are some important historical events that have taken place there?
What are some of the cultural contributions made by the city? What famous Italians were born there? What is the role of the city in modern Italy?
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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