Going Global!

Country and Culture Research

 

 

Students will make a research book by completing a research graphic organizer for several countries. They will write other facts and add a picture of the flag on a loose leaf sheet behind each graphic organizer. Students can also make a poster that displays facts about one country.

1.  Links to fact sheets - Research Fact Sheets - Set 1
                                         Research Fact Sheets - Set 2

Facts came from these sites:  National Geographic Kids
                                                            Fact Monster
                                                            Time for Kids

2.  Link to research graphic organizer - Graphic Organizer

3.  Link to flags (These flags match the research fact sheets.) - Flags

*Classroom decoration idea:  Scholastic Teachers Friend Bulletin-TF3081

*Integrating Music:  Wee Sing Around the World CD
CD description from Amazon: 

This collection of children’s songs from around the world helps children of all ages feel a little closer to other cultures. Each song is sung first in the native language and then again in English-Book and CD.

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Cinderella Around the World
A wonderful way to integrate literature: Around the World in a Glass Slipper!
(from the Darlin' in First blog)
This scrapbook includes:  The Korean Cinderella
                                              Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (Africa)
                                              Yeh-Shen   (China)
                                              The Egyptian Cinderella
                                              Adelita:  A Mexican Story

Birthdays Around the World resources:
Link 1 - free
Link 2 - $
 

Throw Your Tooth on the Roof:  Tooth Traditions from Around the World

 

 

Around the World in 80 Tales - Tales from six continents

 



Flat Stanley and Snail Mail Pen Pals

I have enjoyed doing this project almost every year with my students.  It's a great way to integrate writing, reading and geography.

Flat Stanley is a young boy who is accidentally flattened when a bulletin board falls on him while he is asleep. Stanley is very, very flat but otherwise fine. Stanley’s family did not have enough money to send him on a train or plane to visit a friend in California, so they decided to fold him up and put him in a large envelope and mail him. Our class will do the same with our “Flat Stanleys.”

Stanley's trip to Africa - Click here to see my trip to Africa with Stanley.  I am so excited that he will be going with me to a NCCAT seminar at Ocracoke very soon! I am sure we will both learn and see a lot :).

Flat Stanley template - 2 to a page

Flat Stanley Parent Letter

Flat Stanley Letter to Friend / Family Member


If you're looking for another letter writing project....

Snail Mail Pen Pals   -  My goal is for each student to write to one other student in a different state once a month. We go through the entire writing process before letters are mailed.  They get very excited when mail comes!  This year we will be writing to another second grade class in Iowa.