Costa Rica: An Introduction to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food

This slideshow helps elementary students quickly learn about places, food, art, and the culture of Costa Rica. You can use this slideshow at the beginning of a unit on Central America. You can also print it out and use it as a book for student research. This slideshow also has 4 questions at the end of the slideshow to review what students have learned.

This download comes as a PDF file and is NOT editable as a PDF. However, you can open this slideshow in the TPT EASEL program and add or delete pages and add your own content. I have made a free EASEL activity for your students to use where they can answer questions, circle or highlight things, and write about what they have learned. That is included with this download.

This slideshow includes:

-a map of Costa Rica

-popular foods- gallo pinto, fried plantains, tamales, ceviche, guacamole

-pictures of the different kinds of landscapes

-where the term "Costa Rica" came from

-simple Spanish words to learn

-interesting things in Costa Rica: outdoor activities, zipline canopy tours, Poas National Volcano Park, hot springs, the rainforest

-main crops in Costa Rica

-examples of arts and crafts: pottery, leather, dolls, textiles, traditional oxcart painting

See more of my lessons about world cultures here.