WEBQUEST

TREASURE HUNT IN MADRID 6th GRADERS MAY 2012

Name: __________________________

Do you want to know and discover new and surprising corners in your city? Lets play detectives and go on a treasure hunt!! You have to find the answer to the BIG question:

What is the name of a famous Spanish painter whose paintings are shown in The Prado Museum and gives name to a street in Madrid?
TO FIND THE ANSWER: Find the answer to the following questions. Take the first letter of every answer. Scramble the letters to build up the name. For each question you will have some clues such as webpages where you can get close to the answer: QUESTION Question 1: Where would you go in Madrid if you want to enjoy a concert of classical music performed by the Spanish National Orchestra ? CLUE Clue 1: www.descubremadrid.com Clue 2: http://www.madridinfosite.com/ sp/entretenimiento/madridespectaculos.aspx Clue 3: http://www.cosasdemadrid.es/ mejores-lugares-escucharmusica-clasica-madrid/ ANSWER

QUESTION 1. Which Spanish painter is the creator of Cubism? 2. Where in Madrid can you see his painting Mujer en azul?

CLUE Clue 1 . http://www.arteespana.com/ cubismo.htm Clue 2. http://www.spanisharts.com/

ANSWER

3. In that museum, you also can see his most famous cubist painting. What is its name? QUESTION 1 Find out the name of a subway station. It is the first stop in line 4 and the second in line 3. 2 What is the name of the street that links that subway station to Glorieta de Bilbao? 3.This street is named after a Spanish politician. Find out the name of the park he commissioned. QUESTION 1.In the popular borough of La Latina there is a square called after a tree. The name of the tree begins with po- in English. Whats its name? 2. Whats the name of that tree in Spanish? 3. The name of the square is Plaza del (name of the tree ending in -illo). What colour are the buildings behind the big tree in that square?

Clue 3. http://www.esmadrid.com/es/mu seos-madrid CLUE Clue 1. http://www.metromadrid.es /es/index.html Clue 2. http://maps.google.com/ ANSWER

Clue 3. http://es.wikipedia.org/

CLUE Clue 1. http://lasonline.iastate.edu/ isu_trees/index_common.html

ANSWER

Clue 2. http://www.wordreference.com/ Clue 3. http://maps.google.com/

THE ANSWER TO THE BIG QUESTION IS ___________________