Creator: Woodlands Junior School/Mandy Barrow | visit site
Grade Range: 2 - 6
Project Britain is your guide to British life, culture, and customs, designed for even young readers to understand. Follow icons to learn more about the Royal Family, weather, folklore and traditions, and everything else British. Each topic has a short introduction followed by a series of questions with links to answers and further information. View answers to questions posed by the site’s young readers and by teenagers. One interesting portion of the site compares British countries to states and other countries.
In the Classroom
This is an excellent resource when studying British countries and culture. Allow students to explore the site on their own or view together on your interactive whiteboard (or projector). Have students choose a different portion of the site to become their area of expertise. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos on the topic. Share the videos on a site such as TeacherTube <a href="/single.cfm?id=9419">reviewed here</a>. Challenge your students to create a mini-version of this kind of site on a wiki, creating a guide to their own state or city. Each student could write a portion or page. Add to the guide from year to year using this model of organization (and perhaps some video or multimedia to spice it up a bit).
At Home
Share this site with your student as a source of information about Britain and the Royal Family.
Tags
england, great britain, folktales, cultures, cross cultural understanding, ireland, transportation, scotland,
Subjects
Current Events, Geography (US/World), History & Culture: Europe, Social Studies, Social Studies,