Explore Place Around The World Through Gez.la

It's no secret I love websites that help you explore the world! And I found another one GEZ.LA

This website is similar to Google Earth or Google Street View, in fact it uses some of the same technology. However the search feature and ability or filter by country or type of place (museum, nature, or historic site) is really neat. 

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

1. Pick one of the places and describe it in detail. Where is it? What is it? Why is it important? Who made it? When was it created? Why did you pick that place?
2. Which place would you like to visit? Explain your answer.
3. Which place would you not like to visit? Explain your answer. 
4. Compare two of the places with 2 similarities and 2 differences.
5. Do you prefer to visit nature, museums, or historical places? Explain your answer

Songs About Coronavirus

Many musicians are trying to promote safety during the pandemic by singing songs. Check out some of the songs about staying home below.

Los Rojos from México

Hermanos Yaipen from Peru

Judy Neddermann from Spain

Gaby Moreno from Guatemala

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

1. Which song do you like the most? Explain your answer.
2. Which song do you like the least? Explain your answer.
3. List in Spanish and English 3 phrases from a song.
4. Pick a song and describe the song and video. How would you describe the song? What other songs does it sound like? What instruments do you see/hear?
5. Find another song (in any language) about staying safe during the pandemic. Share a link to the video and say where the artist is from.

WindowSwap

There is a really neat website called WindowSwap where you can click and see outside windows from different parts of the world. 

Window in Singapore

Window in United Kingdom

Window in Japan

Window in France

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete one of the tasks below.

1. Click through 4-5 windows on WindowSwap, take a screen shot of each window. (Just like I did above). Be sure to include the location in the top right of your screen shot.
2. If you don't want to take screen shots, click through 3 windows on WindowSwap and describe each photo in detail. What do you see in the house? Outside the window? Where is the photo taken?
3. Click through 4-5 windows on WindowSwap and list where each window is. Which window would you want to look out the most? Explain your answer. 
4. Submit your window! Read how to do it here. Email the video to your teacher too.

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

I've posted a lot of posts about exploring the world through Google Earth. 

Time to play a game exploring the world!

Click here to play Carmen Sandiego The Crown Jewels Caper 

or Carmen Sandiego The Keys to the Kremlin Caper

or Carmen Sandiego Tutankhamun's Mask Caper

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, play one of the games above, then complete one of the tasks below.

1. Play one of the games and post your score. 
2. What are 3 tips you'd give someone who would play the game next?
3. List 5 things you learned through the game.
4. Play all three and rank the games. Explain your reasoning. 
5. How does this compare to playing the "original" Carmen Sandiego?

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

I've mentioned the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals, and today I'll talk about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In 1948 (over 70 years ago) the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  This is a list of 30 rights that every person in the world has. Look over the list below or click here to see a thorough description of each article. 

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

 

1.     Which 3-5 articles do you think are most important? Explain your answer.

2.     Compare this Declaration of Human Rights to the Declaration of Independence from Britain. What is similar? What is different?

3.     Give an example of how one of these human rights is respected in our community. This could be in the school, the city, the state or our country.  

4.     Give an example of a time when one of these human rights were not respected. What should have happened?

5.     How can you promote/raise awareness of these human rights? Give an example.

6.     How can you defend these human rights? Give an example.

7.     By respecting these rights, how might our community be more just and positive?

8.     Look at the list in Spanish. Find 5 cognates (words that look and sound the same in Spanish and English). List the 5 cognates in Spanish and English.

Looking at Food Through Google Earth

I'm always a fan of a food post! Keeping with the Google Earth theme let's look at a few of their explorations about food.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

1. Learn about Mexico City Street Food and describe 3 new things you learned. 
2. Which food from the  Mexico City Street Food would you want to eat? Explain your answer.
3. Learn about Global Markets and describe 3 new things you learned. 
4. Which place in Global Markets would you want to visit? Explain your answer.
5. What is a new food you learned about? Would you try it? Explain your answer.
6. What's your favorite and least favorite foods? Explain your answer.

Explore How the World Celebrates

We're coming up on end of the year holidays so let's take this opportunity to learn about many different celebrations all around the world. 

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

1. Learn about how Easter is celebrated about and describe 3 new things you learned. 
2. Learn about how Eid al-Fitr is celebrated about and describe 3 new things you learned. 
3. Learn about how Holiday Food Around the World is celebrated about and describe 3 new things you learned. 
4. Take the Holiday Traditions quiz and take a screen shot of your score.
5. Take one of the holidays you learned about and compare it to how you celebrate it. 
6. What holiday is your favorite? Explain your answer. How do you celebrate it?