Honduras is home to ancient ruins and beautiful baroque buildings. It also has fish-nados, a natural phenomenon that causes fish rain upon parts of the country. A video profile explores the Central American nation, including some of its challenges with drugs and murder rates. 

Concepts

honduras, physical geography, human geography, world geography, central america

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the resource to create class country profiles of Central and South American nations

Classroom Considerations

• 74th installment of the Countries A-Z playlist
• Mention of drug trafficking and murder may make this video inappropriate for some classes

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Narrator is humorous and keeps the viewer engaged with pop culture references
• Explores complex history in a concise way that is easy to use as an intro to a variety of lessons

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.10