Foreign Culture WebQuest

Karista LewisProfessor Yang

Fall 2013

Pack your bags because its your lucky day! Have you ever wanted to explore a foreign country? Have you ever wanted to learn about other countries traditions and cultures? Well today is your day!!!

Please Pick Your Destination:Italy, France, Germany, India, Australia, Japan, England, China, Russia, or Mexico

Introduction

Culture is defined as: the sum of the language, customs, beliefs, and art considered characteristic of a particular group of people.

A country is defined as: a large geographic region defined by political, natural, or cultural boundaries.

Today you will be learning the culture of the country you choose to visit!

What is Culture?

Today you will journey to the country of your choice

While there you will take notes about their culture including:

- Holidays- Traditions- Food- Music- Art- Sports etc.

Today’s Task

When you have finished your research you will present your findings in one of the following ways:

- PowerPoint Presentation- Poster Presentation- Essay- Travel Brochure

Tasks Continued

STEP 1: Select a country to visit: Mexico, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Australia, China, England, India, or Japan

Begin Research using one of the following search engines:http://www.google.comhttp://www.yahoo.comhttp://www.bing.com

Procedure

China: http://www.cultural-china.com/ Japan: http://

www.gojapango.com/culture/culture.html India: http://indiaculture.net/ Russia: http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_culture England:

http://www.englishlanguageguide.com/culture/

Specific Culture Websites

Australia: http://www.australia.com/about/culture-history/culture.aspx

Mexico: http://www.mexicoadventure.com/mexican-culture.html

Germany: http://www.germanculture.com.ua/ Italy:

http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/culture/ France: http://

www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/france-country-profile.html

Specific Culture Websites

STEP 2: Complete your culture worksheet shown below:

Procedures Continued

STEP 3: Completer project of choice Poster PowerPoint Brochure essay

Procedures Continued

Criteria Indicators

Needs Improvement0

Good 1

Very Good 2

Excellent 3

Form -Spelling-Grammar-Sentence Structure

5-6 errors

3-4 errors

1-2 errors

No errors and great sentence structure.

Concept Student includes the art, food, music, sports, holidays, and traditions of their specific country

Includes 0-1 of the concepts listed

Includes 2-3 concepts listed

Includes 4-5 concepts listed

Includes all listed concepts

Concept Students use creativity when creating and displaying their project

Student uses little to no creative expression with their presentation

Very little creativity, but project was developing

Student used some creativity but the presentation did not flow some details left out or repeated

Student used lots of detail and the project flowed nicely.

Evaluation

Now boarding Flight 103 back to Syracuse, New York. Once you have returned make sure to share your new found knowledge of your country. Your classmates and your teacher are very excited to hear about your adventure

Conclusion