Links and Lessons for Studies of Countries Around the World

AFRICA

FRANCE

INDIA

JAPAN

PERU

 

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AFRICA:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Africa – Enchanted Learning – Good for Africa in general.

http://www.afroam.org/children/discover/discover.html – This is an excellent site for studying different countries in Africa

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive/ - Pictures, including some of schools in Africa.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive/news/people/index.html – This has interviews with children who live in Africa.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Cookbook/about_cb_wh.html – Cookbook with recipes from countries in Africa.

http://www.mrdowling.com/610-mandela.html – Information about Nelson Mandela

 

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FRANCE:

Click here to download a worksheet for students to complete at the Virtual Tour of France (This will go into Microsoft Works)

Click here to view and print the worksheet in Adobe Acrobat.

Click here to go to the Virtual Tour of France - This is an excellent site to visit during your study of France. Students should feel free to do the quiz at the end.

Click here to visit @Paris - Here you can find lots of information about Paris past and present. This site is designed for tourists intending to visit Paris.

Click here to go to Paris Pages - A great place to learn about Paris (in English or French): the City of Light.

Click here to go on a Virtual Tour of the Eiffel Tower - In English or French.

Click here to go to a Scholastic Study of France - This is another great way to study France with your class.

Click here to go to a Trackstar lesson on France - Here students are given questions and the they click on the sites to visit them and find the answers.

Click here to go a WebQuest tour of France - You divide your class into teams of 4 and their job is to use the sites linked here to create a scrapbook of their virtual trip to France.

 

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INDIA:

http://www.harappa.com/ - Harappa: Glimpses of South Asia before 1947. This site is great for studying the history of India and Pakistan. Has photos, essays, slideshows and more.

http://www.mapsofindia.com/india/index.html - Maps of India. Find distances between cities in India and print out maps of a variety of aspects of India.

http://www.kamat.com/ - Kamat's Potourri. This is a great source of information!

http://www.lightspan.com/common/pages/linkOut5.asp?_prod=LS&loc=
www.vikora.com%2FNamaste%2FRambhoja%2F – This a game in which you are searching for treasure in India and you go to various cities and search. The cities each have pictures and information about that city. (Site presently not working).

http://www.tourism-india.com/ - Tourism India

http://www.pitara.com/ - India news, folktales, peoms and more from a kid's perspective.

http://india.indiagov.org/1page.htm - The Ministry of External Affairs Government of India. This is a great site with information about Culture, Sports, Tourism and much more.

http://travel.lycos.com/Destinations/Asia/India/ - Travel pages on the different cities in India.

 

 

 

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JAPAN:

Click here to download a worksheet for students to complete at the Kidsweb Japan site (This will go into Microsoft Works)

Click here to view and print the worksheet in Adobe Acrobat.

Click here to go to Kidsweb Japan - This is a very kid friendly site to use when studying Japan with your class

Click here to go to Teaching and Learning about Japan - This is a good site with lots of information about Japan and links to more info. ex. links to museums.

Kids Window Japan - This site is good for studying Japanese language and letters. Here you will also find great information about Japanese cuisine and folk tales.

Japan Webquest - This will bring you to an excellent lesson that students complete on the Internet. Students are given tasks to complete and links to click on to help them complete the tasks. A great introduction to your unit on Japan.

 

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PERU:

Click here to view and print a worksheet to go with Virtual Peru in Adobe Acrobat.
Click here to view and print the map to go with the worksheet.

Virtual Peru - This is a great place to learn about Peru. Here you will find brief but detailed information about Peru with lots of photographs.

Journey With Care to Peru - A Virtual Fieldtrip - Travel through Peru with the Youth Corps 2000. A great source of information.

Click here to go to a site of general information about Peru - The reading level here is rather difficult but it is a good source of information.

Click here to go to Reader's Digest: The Living Edens - This is an excellent site for information about the rainforests of Peru and the people who live there. There are also classroom resources and a great Trivia Quiz that is marked on the computers.

Click here to see some excellent photos of Peru - There is not a lot of information about the photos but they are worth looking at to get a feeling of what it is like.

Click here to go to Explore Peru - This is a great site with activities for the kids to do at home or you could do them in class. There are also excellent worksheets here for other subjects and the Map Zap It game is fantastic for geography. (This site isn't currently working but I don't want to take it off just incase, because it was so good)

 

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