Posted by Carrie Enderson on Jun 09, 2014; 11:12pm
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/POST-3-Share-a-resource-tp360p533.html

I would go to AEA online and select Culture Grams and do a unit on the United States.  When watching the tutorials of these on the course I really found it interesting and how easy and fast it was to do so much on one website.  I also like that while you are researching you feel like you are there in that country or state and you get to experience their daily life and culture, their history, the customs of the land, and their lifestyles.  Also that it is a leading reference for concise, reliable and up-to-date cultural information on countries by people who acturally live there.  How much more beneficial to get the information of a country from a person who lives there and knows the country well then a person just visiting to see what the country is like.  With this website I would have my 3rd graders or 4th graders each pick 5 states that they would like to know more about.  Then I would have them find different facts about each state and compare and contrast different information that they found on population, life expectancy, ect. Make a map of the different resources in that state, flower, flag.  There is just so much information that this site presents to teachers and students.  We might also take some of the recipes from the state that the students pick and try them!!