Instructions

This is a short activity designed to help you get better acquainted with Nicaragua and the main issues involving the Sandinista Revolution. Rather than tell you what these are, it makes more sense for you to discover them for yourselves.

Here are the steps

1. Gather your teammates together. It's recommended that you have up to six individuals or 12 people working in pairs (mostly this will depend on the people in your class and the number of networked computers you have available).
   
   
2. Have each person or pair choose one of the eight links below to explore.
   
   The task is to become acquainted with three things:
   
   
   • What do you know about the country of Nicaragua?
     (through brief historical, cultual, political overviews)
     
     
   • What are some of the different attitudes toward the history of the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution?
     (through political commentaries)
     
     
   • What is happening in Nicaraguan politics today?
     (through exploring sources for current events)
     
     
3. Give yourselves 30 minutes of online reading, surfing, and thinking time to explore the link.
   
   
4. As you're reading, consider the source of the information (any reason to doubt the truth of what you're
   reading?)
   
   
5. After 30 minutes rejoin your teammates.
   
   
6. Each person (or pair) should share the main issues that were discovered relating to Nicaragua.
   
   
7. Then, as a group cluster the most important issues related to "What's going on in Nicaragua today?"
   
   
8. When you've finished clustering, you're ready to return to Nicaragua Quest.