Three Country Preview This is a DEMO: complete ALL fields on yours!

 

Your  Three Countries

Serbia

Jordan

Comoros

 

Step 1:  Search for each country name in the following resources.  Record the number of results found for each search.  In our library, click the "keyword" search.  Spell the country name correctly.

Google # hits

222,000,000 hits

451,000,000 hits

86,100,000 hits

bing # hits

17,700,000 hits

97,000,000 hits

24,300,000 hits

Ebsco # hits

76,918 hits

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Destiny # hits

9 hits

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Step 2:  Search for each country name in the following resources.  Copy and paste one fact as shown for each country from each site.  On the US State Department page, click "Background Note."

(Note: Size of population is a statistic, not an interesting fact.)

Google News interesting fact

two stolen Picasso paintings have been found in Serbia

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US State Dept.

any statistic

Serbia (77,474 sq. km.) is slightly smaller than Maine

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National Geographic statistic OR interesting fact

You can buy a travel pass, but the train experience sounds pretty bad.

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Step 3:  Explore your personal interests as they relate to each country. Search Google, bing, etc. for 

Country Name + your interest  such as:  Angola fly fishing OR Latvia "heavy metal" music OR "South Korea" cuisine

(*"Anywhere" means anywhere EXCEPT Wikipedia.)

Searched for

Serbia wildlife

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Interesting fact anywhere* on web

Serbia has a least two kinds of eagles

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URL for anywhere* fact

http://www.wild-serbia.com/gallery/Ptice-Birds/Falconiformes/Orlovi/index.html

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Step 4: Jot anything you'd like to remember that does not fit in the sections above.  For example, does this country go by different names?  What else would you like to know about this country?

NOTES

 

 

 

Milosevic and Kosovo are involved—I'm not sure how. 

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