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NAMING COUNTRIES OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA

In your units go to www.sporcle.com and go to play - geography

Click play on “countries of the world”

Rule – you are NOT allowed to google countries of the world

If you are stuck on spelling send a group member to come as Miss Miller

Groups who get the most countries get to choose first…

HOW MANY DID YOU GET…

Of the whole world?

Of South and Central America?

WINNING TEAM GETS TO CHOOSE FIRST

What country would you like to study from the America’s? (3-4 groups from each line)

Central mainland Central island South mainland

Mexico Cuba Brazil

Panama Haiti Chile

Guatemala Bahamas Argentina

Nicaragua Dominica Peru

Belize Trinidad and Tobago Colombia

El Salvador Antigua and Barbuda Ecuador

Costa Rica Grenada Venezuela

Honduras Dominican Republic Uruguay

St Lucia Paraguay

THINGS YOU NEED TO DO:

- Name the country

- Give the population

- Show the country on a map

- Show a popular tourist destination of the country

- Give a daily menu example of their food – breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner and dessert

- Do a calorie and nutrient breakdown of their food – explain what you think that mean for their countries health

- Give a meal tradition or etiquette rule for eating in the country

- Give something else the country is known for or fun facts

EXAMPLE PROJECT (FOR INFORMATION – NOT HOW WELL IT IS DONE – YOURS SHOULD BE BETTER! )Country name: Suriname

Capitol: Paramaribo

Country population: 534,541

Foods: Calories : Amount fat:

Amount sugar:

Breakfast

Yogurt and muesili

Lunch Rice, chicken skewers and beans

Snack Bakbana (fried plantain with peanut sauce

Dinner Fish masala with rice

Dessert Bojo cake with coconut and cassava

Bojo cake

Bakbana

Total daily calorie intake was approximately 1700 calories

Didn’t look into fresh fruits available in the area – locals probably eat more fruits and vegetables than what was stated in the chart Overall health of the country is probably pretty good considering they lead fairy active lives within the jungle

Meal tradition: Suriname is known for making lots of different drinks and they drink often throughout the day (non-alcoholic) such as tea, coffee, soft drinks and juices

a local favourite is called “mauby” and made from the bark of a local tree then sweetened, boiled and strained

made from buckthorn bark from the colubrina elliptica and said to resemble the taste of rootbeer

Fun facts:

- the official language of Suriname is Dutch and they use the Suriname Dollar. One Surinamese Dollar is about the equivalent of 33 cents in Canadian Dollars

- Tropical rainforests make up 80% of their landscape

- Their main export is bauxite which is an aluminum ore