MS English Country PBL South America by Grant Meltzer https://padlet.com/gmeltzer/6hgmqzaitkmz Made By Me en-us 2018-04-09 18:21:19 UTC 2018-04-13 17:44:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Step 1 gmeltzer https://padlet.com/gmeltzer/6hgmqzaitkmz/wish/249976702 History

  • Aonikenk, Kolla, Qom, Wichí, Diaguita, Mocoví, Huarpe peoples
  • Carlos Gardel.
  • José de San Martín.
  • Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
  • Juan Manuel de Rosas.
  • Justo José de Urquiza.
  • Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
  • Juan Domingo Peron.
  • César Milstein.


  • Chilean War of Independence (1810–1826),Bolivian War of Independence (1811–1825),

Invasion of the Banda Oriental (1811–1812),Argentine Civil Wars (1814–1880)

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  • Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay 
  • 34 00 S, 64 00 W
  • Igazu Falls
  • fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium, arable land
  • mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest
  • January is the hottest month in Buenos Aires with an average temperature of 76°F (25°C) and the coldest is July at 53°F (12°C) with the most daily sunshine hours at 9 in February. The wettest month is January with an average of 100mm of rain.
  •   herbs, shrubs, grasses, and brambles.
  • armadillos, foxes, martens, wildcats, hare, deer, American ostriches (rheas), hawks, falcons, herons, plovers, and partridges



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  • Argentine Republic 
  • presidential republic
  • President Mauricio 
  • Nothing

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  •  food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals and petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, and steel.
  •  mainly soybeans, wheat and maize.
  • Trade with China was negligible until 1992
    • soybeans, maize, barley, rice, flax seed, sugarcane, cotton, citrus fruits, and grapes.

    • Argentine peso
    • lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium and lithium.
    • beef, citrus fruit, grapes, honey, maize, sorghum, soybeans, squash, sunflower seeds, wheat, and yerba mate.

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  • 44,293,293
  • European (mostly Spanish and Italian descent) and mestizo (mixed European and Amerindian ancestry) 97.2%, Amerindian 2.4%, African 0.4% 
  • nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%
  • Male 72.7, female 79.9 and total life expectancy is 76.3 which gives Argentina a World Life Expectancy ranking of 50
  • Spanish
  • Private School
  • In Argentina, education starts at the pre-primary level with kindergarten for children aged two to five. March and finishes in December.Classes are taught in Spanish from Monday through Friday, 7:15AM -1PM.Private schoolArgentine cuisine
  • jeans and t-shirts or soccer jerseys, but you'll also see a lot of people in nice pants and dressy shoes
  • Women tend to wear very feminine clothing, even if they're wearing jeans, and they don't tend to wear sneakers.
  • Monday | February 12 | Carnival Monday
    Tuesday | February 13 | Carnival Tuesday
    Saturday | March 24 | Truth and Justice Memorial Day
    Thursday | March 29 | Maundy Thursday
  • Soccer
  • Bill Gaede, Gabriela Gonzalez 









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  • Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean
  • 10 00 S, 55 00 W
  • mostly tropical, but temperate in south
  • bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, platinum, tin, rare earth elements, uranium, petroleum, hydropower, timber
  • the vast majority of people live along, or relatively near, the Atlantic coast in the east; the population core is in the southeast, anchored by the cities of Sao Paolo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro



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  • The Portuguese were the first European settlers to arrive in the area, led by adventurous Pedro Cabral, who began the colonial period in 1500.
  • José Sarney,Fernando Collor de Mello,Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  • Platine War (1851–1852) | Brazil Uruguay Entre Ríos Corrientes Unitarians | Argentina Federalists Blancos
    Uruguayan War (1864–1865) | Brazil Colorados Unitarians | Uruguay Blancos Federalists
    Paraguayan War (1864–1870)

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  • Federative Republic of Brazil
  • federal presidential republic
  • Michel Temer
  • nothing
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  •  automobile industry is expanding rapidly with major sources of foreign investment and the construction of new manufacturing plants. 
  • coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus and beef
  • The U.S. goods trade surplus with Brazil was $4.1 billion in 2016.
  • Brazilian real
  • bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, platinum, tin, clay, rare earth elements, uranium, petroleum, hydropower and timber.
  •  were a measure of social status

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  • With an area of approximately 8.5 million square kilometers, Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world.
  •  207.7 million
  • Spanish

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