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St. Peter's Bascilica in Rome, photo courtesy of 123rf.com Catholic Heritage Curricula Italy Unit Background: Catholic Heritage Curricula provides an elementary school level Social Studies unit that explores nine countries including Italy . A four week plan allows for two days of studying Italy each week. See Tour a Country lesson plans at Catholic Heritage Curricula Learning about Other Lands. I recommend purchasing these plans to participate in the studies of the other countries. Completing a provided brochure is one excellent option for studying Italy . Rather than completing the CHC brochure, Ryan and I made a Keynote presentation on our Apple computer. We used part of CHC’s schedule, resources, and a few of the enrichment activities, as our guide. Materials: Keynote or Powerpoint App, W orld Map and/or Globe, noted websites/Italy, noted books/Italy, noted religious art masterpieces/Italy, ingredients for Italian food, noted Italian music. Catholic Heritage Curricula lesson format, revisions by Catholic T eacher Daydreams copyright 2013
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St. Peter's Bascilica in Rome, photo courtesy of 123rf.com
Catholic Heritage Curricula Italy Unit Background: Catholic Heritage Curricula provides an elementary
school level Social Studies unit that explores nine countries including
Italy. A four week plan allows for two days of studying Italy each week.
See Tour a Country lesson plans at Catholic Heritage Curricula
Learning about Other Lands. I recommend purchasing these plans to
participate in the studies of the other countries. Completing a provided
brochure is one excellent option for studying Italy. Rather than
completing the CHC brochure, Ryan and I made a Keynote presentation
on our Apple computer. We used part of CHC’s schedule, resources, and
a few of the enrichment activities, as our guide.
Materials: Keynote or Powerpoint App, World Map and/or Globe,noted websites/Italy, noted books/Italy, noted religious art masterpieces/Italy,
ingredients for Italian food, noted Italian music.
Catholic Heritage Curricula lesson format, revisions by Catholic Teacher Daydreams copyright 2013
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Week One: Plan. Listen to music similar to Eurpeon
Playground's compact disc found at European Playground. Make a
travel plan for flying from America to Italy. How much will it cost? We
chose Expedia. Find an Italian flag image to post and give credit to the
website where you found it. Create first page of Keynote with travel
information and Italy's flag.
Finish another Keynote page by researching the weather in Italy. Your
county library has kid links to get information like this. When will you
be traveling there? Is it warm enough for swimsuits by the
Mediterranean Sea? What should you pack to wear? What other itemsshould you bring? A language book for Italian? Italian money? What is
the exchange rate?
Rent from library or purchase:
courtesy of Amazon
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courtesy of Italy Travel Co.
Week Two: Map. Find a map of Italy on a search engine. Notice its
shape is like a boot. Find the Mediterranean Sea, the Apennine
Mountains, the Alps and Rome. Post this picture on your new Keynote
page. Find one fact about each place. Local library sites are good
resource sites. Be sure that you do not copy and paste the fact. Rewrite
the fact in your own words, and post it on your page.
Begin a new Keynote page. Title this page Fast Facts or Interesting
Information. Some ideas for Italy facts might include government,
climate, population, area, religions, historical fact, or current events.
Research can be completed using a simple children's non-fiction library
book or surf the web, but make sure your source is reliable. Facts can be
fun. Be creative.
Enrichment: View all or parts of this History channel special ~History Channel Pompeii . . . Buried Alive Begin to read about Italy saints in Saints for Young Readers: Sts.
Catherine of Siena, Thomas Aquinas, Francis of Assisi, and Anthony of
Padua.
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Courtesy of Italy Travel Co.
Week Three: Research. Choose an historical event or place in Italy.
The fall of Rome, eruption of Mt. Vesuvius (watch youtube video, with
parents, from Week Two), the colosseum battles, or the Vatican areprudent topics. Find an image to go with this topic and paste it into your
keynote. Give credit to the site that provided the image. Research your
topic and write one paragraph about it. My son wrote a paragraph about
Mt. Vesuvius because he found the video to be fascinating.
Learn about a Catholic event or shrine. Read about some of the saints
that lived and died here (see week two under Saints for Young Readers).
Tour St. Peter's Bascilica online at EWTN St. Peter's Bascillica Gallery.Label Vatican City on your Keynote map (slip a textbox on your map to
make it easy). Find images of Italian saints. Paste the images on a new
Keynote page and write a sentence about each saint. Remember to type
"courtesy of (website)" under your images, so you do not receive credit
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for your pictures. Are you able to find out how many Italians are
Catholics? Do they honor the Pope as we do?
Enrichment: Listen to Vivaldi while you study religious art masterpieces
that may be found in the Vatican Art collection in Rome. Begin one of
these favorite fiction books about Rome, from Aunt Dee's Attic. These
books may be ordered at (952) 931-0004 at THE APOSTLE
BOOKSTORE in Minnesota.
Dianne Ahern books provide a plothera of facts about Rome and the
Pontificate in a f un, unique manner. If Sister Philomena was a real
person, we'd love to have her for supper tonight!
Week Four: Explore. Now it's time to explore Italy as if you were
there! Do you want to learn about Italy's foods, their Holidays, the
animals that are native to Italy, the landscape? What kinds of music do
Italians listen to? Do they watch American movies or movies from
Italy? What was your favorite part of Italy and if you could, would you
travel there?
Publish your Keynote presentation by sharing it with an audience.
Keynote presentations or similar presentations are fun to make and
watch. If you are a homeschool student, why not share it with your
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family while eating an authentic Italian meal? Congratulations on your
first Keynote or Powerpoint Presentation!
Teachers, If you follow this plan on Catholic Teacher Daydreams you
will be able to click on the provided links. Once you print the lesson the following links will be helpful:
https://www.chcweb.com/catalog/
TouraCountryLearningaboutOtherLandsandPeoples/
product_info.htmlhttp://www.ewtn.com/gallery/sp/sp26.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-nifgJUTlg
http://www.putumayo.com/european-playground-re-release?
section=kids.
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