ITALY: Discovering Italy Activity Pack

Build content-area literacy as you explore the birthplace of pizza and Leonardo da Vinci with the FIVE engaging activities and colorful photo poster in the Discovering Italy Activity Pack.

Cross-Curricular Activities Included:

• How to Make a Pizza is a cut-and-glue sequencing activity.
• The Legend of Romulus and Remus is a fill-in-the-blank story about the founding of Rome.
• Mapping Italy challenges students to use critical thinking skills as they complete a crossword puzzle based on a map of Italy.
• Mona Lisa challenges students to complete a 12-part puzzle of one of the world’s most famous paintings.
• Renaissance Man features the remarkable Leonardo da Vinci with a Word Search puzzle.
• Symbols of Italy is an 11 x 17 inch poster that illustrates six cultural symbols with colorful photographs.

Vocabulary Words and Phrases:

ancient, brilliant, Colosseum, legend, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Remus, Renaissance Man, Romulus

Targeted Skills:

• Promoting respect and appreciation for cultural differences
• Identifying national and cultural symbols of Italy
• Defining the characteristics of a folktale or legend
• Distinguishing between fact and fiction
• Placing events in sequential order
• Reading a map
• Using a compass rose to locate places on a map
• Identifying the accomplishments of Leonardo da Vinci
• Building content-area literacy in social studies
• Critical thinking skills of comparing, contrasting, and analysis
• Reading fluency and comprehension

Sample Pages: Please see the preview for images of the activities and posters.

Technical Info: The resources are in PDF format, combined into a single zip file, and illustrated with original drawings and/or high-definition photographs.

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BUNDLE AND SAVE: These resources are also included in three bundles:

• SAVE 20% with the Discovering Italy Bundle, which also contains the introductory book, Snapshots of Italy.
• SAVE 25% with the Exploring the Culture of Italy SUPER-Bundle, which contains everything in the Discovering Bundle, PLUS two Italian language books that use cultural symbols of Italy to teach color names and number words from 1-10.
• SAVE 30% with the Countries and Cultures Around the World MEGA-Bundle, which includes Snapshots books and Activity Packs for more than thirty countries around the world, PLUS the entire Holiday Traditions Around the World series as the FREE bonus.

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RELATED RESOURCES:

• Snapshots of ITALY
• Our Colorful World in ITALIAN
• Learn to Count in ITALIAN

PLUS…

• Let’s Explore the Continent of EUROPE POWERPOINT
• SEVEN WONDERS of the Modern World
• LEARN TO PAINT with the MASTERS
• TASTE THE WORLD! International Recipes for Jr. Chefs
• Teaching with TOOBS®: AROUND THE WORLD (World Landmarks)
• The SEVEN CONTINENTS Activity Book

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY PACKS IN THE DISCOVERING COUNTRIES AND CULTURES SERIES:

• AFRICA: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania
• ASIA/MIDDLE EAST: China, India, Israel, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Vietnam
• AUSTRALIA: Australia, New Zealand
• EUROPE: France, Germany, Greece, Ireland (FREE), Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom
• NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS: Cherokee, Chippewa, Comanche, Iroquois, Navajo, Pacific Northwest nations, Pueblo nations, Shoshone, Sioux
• NORTH AMERICA: Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States
• SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Peru

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