Great Falls Park

Let's visit a National Park.

Next to Washington DC, you can also visit the states of Maryland and Virginia where you can get to one of the most famous places to take a picnic and enjoy spectacular views of the Potomac River at this National Park, located just a few miles away from Washington DC.

Great Falls offers a variety of activities to do such as hiking, kayaking, rock climbing, bicycling, and horseback riding. The park is also accessible from both the Maryland and Virginia sides of the river and it is very visited by both locals and tourists.

What about you? Would you like to go there on your summer holidays in the future?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Falls_Park#/media/File:Great_Falls_National_Park_-_the_falls_-_01.jpg — Mehul Antani . *Great Falls National Park - the falls* (CC BY)

At the end of the session, you will have:

learnt a lot of details about Great Falls Park.
learnt how to express situations in the future.
started your collaborative Google Site in groups about the city of Washington DC.

Continue with your posts on Twitter (#taskprediction and #EDIAwashington). Discover the maps of the Great Falls Park and remember that this park is in the Potomac river. Have you ever visited a National Park in your country? Which one/s?. The 'Rubric to assess a Tweet' can help you do a good job in this social network.

Find a park at the National Park Service from the United States and send a tweet telling which one you would like to visit in the future and why using the hashtags from the project.

Remember that the Great Falls Park must be part of the route at your Google Sites map.

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I will travel to Washington in the future.

At this moment, you are wondering if you will ever visit Washington DC in the future. As you do not know what will happen in the future because it is not possible to know it in advance, you have to predict what will or might happen in the future. But you can have your plans already or make your predictions.

Which verbal tense do you have to use to express those situations?

You can have more information about this verbal tense in this simple future website.

Check if you have understood the difference between these two verbal tenses with some activities.

Challenge: English-speaking cities

Challenge Step 1: Open up a new Google Site and share it with your group

The challenge in this project is a Google site about English-speaking cities. In this challenge, we are going to work in groups of 2/3 people. The first step is to create the site using Google Sites.

The rubric to evaluate a google map will be used to evaluate your work. Remember that you have to evaluate it once you have finished creating the route with the ten stops of each city.

You can have extra help watching the following video about registering and using Google Sites. One of the members of the group is going to be the leader and is going to open up the site and share it with the rest of the members of the group. Thus, the other members will be able to edit the site as well.

Bradley Lands. Google Sites Tutorial for Education (CC BY)

After having created the site, check that the whole group can edit it and start designing a page with the title English-Speaking Cities.
In this first page, you have to describe what your group is going to create collaboratively: a website with information about 10 of the most important English-speaking cities in the world, one city per project. In this project, we are going to work with the city of Washington DC.
If you have created the google site previously, using another project from this series, you only have to add a new page to your Google site.
As you have to work in groups of 2/3 people, you can also use the website linoit.com to brainstorm your ideas, collect your links and reach an agreement on which digital materials you are going to use at your Google Site for Washington DC even though you are working at different places.

It is now time to start working collaboratively with your group. Remember to always follow all the steps. That way it will be easier for you to produce the final product of the challenge. Your teacher can always help you with your doubts.

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