TRIP AROUND THE WORLD SCAVENGER HUNT

Trip Around the World - Online Scavenger Hunt

***write your responses on a blank sheet of paper***

TUESDAY
1.    Visit the NY Times interactive travel site. Choose 3 places of the 52 to visit (only 1 can be from the USA.b.   http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/11/travel/52-places-to-go-in-2015.html?WT.mc_id=2015-Q2-KWP-AUD_DEV-0401-0630&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVAPRIL&kwp_0=12797&_r=1

a.    Answer: What continent is it on and why do you want to go to each place?

c.    Visit the CIA - World Fact Book website...List 3 facts from each country you want to visit.

d. Visit each everycutlure.com (everyculture.com)... Spend 10 minutes on this website.

WEDNESDAY


4. Find a current event from each continent (there's 7!)(must be news from the past two months)... Summarize the event, write a personal connection, and cite the news source

5. Online Resources... Visit 4 of the following websites... Write down 1interesting thing about each website...

·       The World on a Plate

Foods and recipes in Different Countries

http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations

·       Did You Know - from Meeting in Rome 2008

·       Countries and Flags MultCo Homework Center

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/cntryhc.html

·       United Streaming Discovery Education

Use Password: A286-3176 to creat account. Watch a video about your country.

http://www.discoveryeducation.com/

·       eThemes

Search C for country

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/

·       eThemes

Search your Country for Info

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/

·       UN Cyber Schoolbus

United Nations Info on every Country

http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp

6.  80 Unreal Places in the World!
explore this awesome slideshow!
Write down destinations in your notes that seem especially interesting!