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Country & Culture Study: Part 1 - Country Intro

Use this page for Honors and Adv. World Studies II, and for the UN Adopt a County assignment

Project One: Country Profiles with data and statistics

REQUIRED FOR PROJECT ONE: This site give you a quick snapshot about countries, includes maps, travel information, and global issues/concerns. 

Google Search & Embassies

Use Google to locate a website for your project.  Be sure to use credible, academic sources.  Make sure you can find the author or the organization responsible for the website.Official pages of Tourism are more reliable than commercial pages.  Embassies are often excellent sources of information.  Google your country plus the word embassy, i.e. Portugal Embassy or Consulate. 

Google Web Search

Search the Catalog

Looking for pictures and multimedia?

Remember, as you are researching in the different databases and on the different websites and you find photos that might be usable, save them into a folder for future use.  You can also scan images from the books.