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Each student will take a trip of a lifetime to beautiful Costa Rica! This is an individualized activity. The students will have the opportunity to view the beautiful sights of Costa Rica in their very own Virtual Class Field Trip! At various points of the trip, the students will be asked to use the Google Street View function to explore different regions of the country on their own, looking at different websites, and writing their own descriptions of what they see in Spanish. Also, the students will need to find pictures and include them in their Countries Around the World booklet, when they are at each of the excursions. ¡Buen Viaje!

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This interactive, virtual field trip to Costa Rica uses Google Maps to give your students the most realistic trip to Costa Rica that they can experience without leaving your classroom. Your students will travel to some of the most famous sites in Costa Rica, including...

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After reviewing the Costa Rica PowerPoint Presentation, you will be using Microsoft Paint, Mac's Paintbrush or a creative drawing application to create a graphic file of a rain forest in Costa Rica. This is an individualized activity. Also, you will be required to include a dialogue in Spanish between two animals that live in the rain forest.

**You must choose the animals that were discussed in the PowerPoint presentation or you can use your textbook, pages 50-51.

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Using the Currency Converter, calculate how much spending money you and your partner want to take to Costa Rica for a two-week vacation. You will need to convert the amount from U.S. Dollars to Costa Rican colones. Please use Google Docs to create your trip itinerary in Spanish! Please make a rough sketch on what sightseeing tours you would like to do while you are in Costa Rica. You must take into consideration excursions that may want to go on, souvenirs, your flight to and from Costa Rica, and other traveling expenses that you might incur.

*I included a link of Costa Rica's best tours to do while you are visiting the country! Note the prices for the excursions are in U.S. Dollars and must be converted to Costa Rican colones.

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Write a fictional story about a day in the Costa Rican rain forest using the digital story creator StoryJumper. This activity will involve two students in each group. Be prepared to share and read your fictional story out aloud to your classmates! Please make sure your fictional story is in Spanish. Also, make sure your sentences in your fictional story are grammatically correct, the Spanish conjugations are spelled correctly, and you have proper accents in the correct locations.

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For inspiration, take a look at other books that StoryJumper members have written. You can search the StoryJumper Library using the search box at the top of the page. Or you can click "Library" at the top of the page and browse books that have been picked by our editors.

To help plan your story, check out our StoryStarter Guide.

When you're ready you can create a book using a computer or iPad.

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But sharing your book with others is a big part of the fun on StoryJumper!
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When you make your book "Public", it'll be added to the StoryJumper public library so long as it meets some minimum requirements. Other StoryJumper members can then search for it and it could appear in the "Recommended Books" section. It will appear on your public profile (storyjumper.com/profile/[your_username]) that you can share with others. In addition, after a week or two, you'll be able to search for it in Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines.

Share with family and friends

If you want to email a link to your book to your friends and family, just copy the "Link" shown and paste it into an email. You can also post your book to Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter by clicking on the icons shown.

Embed on your site

You can further promote your book by "embedding" it on other websites so it can be read on those sites (kind of like watching YouTube videos on different websites). Just copy the "Code" shown and paste it into another website's HTML code.

Here's an example of an embedded StoryJumper book on weebly.com:
The Kitten Who Got Lost

Remix

You can also allow others to "remix" your story, just like musicians remix songs. To do so, scroll down to "Remix" and click the Allow button. When people go to your story, they will see an Edit button which they can click to create a copy of your book that they can remix!

After you click the BUY button next to your book, you have these publishing options:

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Enjoy publishing your own book for keepsakes, gifts, or selling!
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Using a shoe box, you will be building a classroom model of a rain forest food chain.There will be three students in each group. Each group will need to create labels (ALL in Spanish please) in either Microsoft Word or Google Docs of the animals located in Monteverde! Also, you will either need to physically draw or print out the images of the animals. You will be required to include at least 5 animals from the PowerPoint Presentation or using the textbook, pages 50-51. You must include a background image on your shoe box along with lines drawn from the producer to the consumer, or the scavenger to the consumer, etc.

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Using WavePad Audio Editor, each group of three students will create the sound effects of the Monteverde rain forest. Each group will need to add narration of a story in the rain forest (in Spanish, of course) and use some musical instruments to enhance the audio file. For example, the students can use a rain stick as an instrument that mimics the sound of rain.

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Using a creative drawing application, illustrate a map of Costa Rica. This activity will involve two students in each group. Include on your map the places that we discussed in the PowerPoint Presentation (el Mar Caribe, el Océano Pacífico, Nicaragua, Panamá, etc.). The students will also need to include: Parque Nacional Tortuguero, Volcán Poás, Volcán Arenal, Monteverde, Bosque Nuboso Santa Elena, the capital of Costa Rica, etc. At the bottom of your map, create a key with symbols to show the capital, a rain forest, volcanoes, etc. Please make sure your key for your map and your overall map of Costa Rica are both in Spanish.

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On our virtual field trip to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, we will be taking a self-guided tour of the rain forest. In the rain forest, we will be specifically in the area that has: los armadillos (armadillos), mariposas (butterflies), diferentes tipos de pájaros (different types of birds), monos (monkeys), etc. At the zoo, the students will feel like they are at the Monteverde rain forest in Costa Rica! While on the field trip, each group of three students will videotape their experiences of the natural surroundings of the butterflies, plants, insects, trees, and other animals.The students will use WeVideo or iMovie to construct their video of nature.

**The students videos must be in Spanish with English subtitles!!

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The 10 Best Costa Rica Tours, Excursions & Activities 2018

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Nearly 200,000 viewers have already tuned in to Cleveland Metroparks free Virtual Classroom on Facebook Live to learn about nature and engage with animals at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Starting on Monday, March 23, a third weekday session will offer viewers the opportunity hone their outdoor adventure skills.

"The community response to our virtual classrooms has been overwhelming as daily life has quickly changed across our region," said Cleveland Metroparks CEO Brian Zimmerman. "By tuning into these sessions in real time, families can ask questions and engage with our experts, giving them an opportunity to learn and grow and connect with nature from their own home."

The Cleveland Metroparks Virtual Classroom is sponsored by Raising Cane's, as part of its commitment to investing in the community and education. Following each Virtual Classroom, parents of children 12 and under who participated in the Facebook Live will have a chance to earn an achievement award that can be exchanged for free food and drink. One parent of a child age 12 and under will be selected following each Virtual Classroom.

At 11 a.m. visit Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Facebook Page to join our biologists who are working to secure a future for wildlife at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Check-in with your favorite Zoo animals and learn about what it takes to care for some of the most endangered species in the world.

Then, at 1 p.m., visit Cleveland Metroparks Facebook Page to join our park naturalists as we explore the Emerald Necklace and look for early signs of spring, learn about the forest floor, birds and more.

Coming Monday viewers can tune in daily at 3:30 p.m. to Cleveland Metroparks Facebook Page to hone their outdoor adventure skills with our experienced outdoor recreation team. Topics will include things like backpacking, watersports, cycling and park exploration.

Upon the conclusion of each live Virtual Classroom session, the full videos can be viewed at clevelandmetroparks.com/virtualclassroom. To complement each live experience, additional video content will be available on the Cleveland Metroparks YouTube page - be sure to hit the subscribe button!

"Parks and nature have become an outlet for guests to find solace during this challenging time," said Zimmerman. "Now more than ever, connecting with nature is a way to stay busy, active and find peace."

While the virtual classrooms may inspire independent outdoor exploration, Cleveland Metroparks Ten to Explore lists presented by Wayside Furniture are an additional resource to help guide guests to explore the Emerald Necklace.

Cleveland Metroparks 18 park reservations remain open as well as many Cleveland Metroparks golf courses. For all closures and impacts visit: clevelandmetroparks.com/COVID-19.

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