Ms' Bain

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Ms. Bain

• South America Project

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Content Area and Standard

• Social Studies
• Standard
• ELA research and Technology
• 1.4 Use organizational features of electronic
  text to locate information
• 1.5 Compose documents with appropriate formatting
  by using word-processing skills and principles of
  design

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Students research a South American Country of
their choice

• They find information on the internet and use
  books

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Students write a research paper on country with
works cited
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Students create a PowerPoint using laptop
computers

• Students learn to use PowerPoint
• They use their research papers as the basis for
  the PowerPoint

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Students present their PowerPoints to class
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Venezuela
Student work Example

• By Jonathon Swieder

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Customs and Culture

• 96 Roman Catholic
• 2 Protestant
• 2 Other
• Parrots are pretty popular
• Dogs and Cats are not

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Sports

• Baseball is most popular
• Basketball and Bullfighting too.

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Food

• Arepa Sandwich has meat, cheeses,jelly or
  vegetables
• Unusual Foods like Lizard Soup
• Venezuelans love to EAT!!!

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History

• First people 16,000 years ago
• First European 1498 Christopher Columbus
• Ruled by Spain began in 1580s
• Independence July 5, 1811

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Geography

• Northern tip of South America
• South of Caribbean Sea
• Covers 352,150 sq. mile
• 1736 miles of coast
• Coastal Low-cost way of trade
• Andes Mountains, Angel Falls, The Orinoco
• 3,500 sq. Lake Maracaibo
• 1,600 miles long Orinoco River

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Economy

• Currency Venezuelan Bolivar
• GDP335 Billion dollars
• Oil main focus along with petroleum products
• Agricultural Products help

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People

• 26 million
• National Language Spanish
• Warm and Gracious
• Try to avoid serious conversation
• Spanish, Arab, Italian, Portuguese, German,
  African, Indigenous People

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Government

• Capital Caracas
• Federal Republic
• 23 states, 1 Federal District, 1 Fed. Dependency
• Navy,Army,Air Force and National Guard
• 82,000 People in the Military
• 8,000 Reservist

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Constitution

• Old Adopted in 1999
• New Amended 2/15/2009
• Made to eliminate Term Limits on Presidency

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National Symbols

• National TreeAraguaney
• National Flower Orchid
• National Bird Turpial
• Flag has 3 symbols
• Wheat sheaf with 20 ears
• Flags and Weapons
• A Running Horse

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Sources

• Countryreports.org.2009 Edition. Published by
  Countryreports.org lt3/03/09gt. http//www.countryre
  ports.org
• McCoy,Jennifer L.Venezuela. World Book Student.
  2009.Safari. 6 March 2009. http//www.worldbooko
  nline.com