Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion
Partner Exercise--partners to be determined, and countries to be assigned by teacher.
In this project you and your partner will use the web to locate information about a country in Eastern Europe. You will then create a 6 slide mini PowerPoint slideshow with the information that you and your partner have found. The 6 slides will be saved either on a flash drive or e-mailed to me so that I may add them to our Tour of Eastern Europe Presentation. Once I have received all of the countries needed for our tour, I will assemble them in on final PowerPoint Presentation. On said day, we will then take our "Tour of Eastern Europe". During our tour, when we come to your assigned country, you and your partner (using the information on your slides or notes) will be required to present what you have found out about your country to the rest of the class. You are encouraged to make your slides easy to read with appropriate fonts, lots of pictures and accurate information. Be prepared to have your classmates ask you questions about the information that you have found. It is your job to be an "Expert" about all the information that you are presenting about your country.
You and a partner have been assigned a country from Eastern Europe to research. These countries include: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia-Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Moldova, and Bulgaria.
Use the following link https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html to identify the following information about your country:
What is the Capital?
What is the Area of your country?
What other countries border your country?
What languages are spoken in your country?
What type of government does your country have?
What agricultural or industries are in in your country?
Does you country have any unresolved transnational issues?
Use the following link http://maps.grida.no/go/collection/collectionid/BB6FD43F-F15D-B099-F496-9B5DDD8170CC to identify the following information about your country:
What are the major rivers?
What are the major mountain ranges?
What are the major bodies of waters in or surrounding your country (lakes, oceans, seas)
Are there any other physical features that are unique to your country that you would like to tell us about?
Use the following link http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp to identify the following information about your country
What is the currency of your country?
What is the population of your country?
What is the population density of your country?
Use any of the following links to locate pictures for your slides:
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en (images)
Locate the flag for your country from the following link. Save it to your computer and include it on any one of your slides.
When visiting your country, you must fly into the capital. Use the following website to locate the airport code for the capital of your country. Remember CAREFULLY locate the correct airport code or your luggage may not arrive.
Use the following site to determine the longitude and latitude for the Capital of your country:
Use the following link to determine what time it is in your country's Capital. What is the time difference between Auburn, Maine and your country's Capital?
Is there anything else that you have found out about your country that you would like to share with us? Music? Art? (Appropriate) Phrases in the language of your country?--How you say hello??
Now that you have obtained all of the required information, you must arrange all of the data on your slides. Slide #1 must contain the name of your country and at least one image. You may arrange all of the other information in any order that you wish, but you MUST have a total of 6 slides--the first one being the title slide, and you must carry the name of your country on each of the following slides somewhere at the top of the slide. Choose a font that is easy to read (Arial, Times New Roman, Comic MS, Verdana), and remember to size it appropriately. It should be no smaller than 16pt in order for it to be visible when projected on the screen. Include you and your partner's name on the first slide. Please include at least one image on each slide to make it visibly appealing for your classmates--WOW them!!!. Choose your background color carefully. Red or white font on a yellow background will not be visible when projected. You may choose any animation or transition effects that you wish, but remember too many 'special effects' my distract the viewer and distract from your presentation. When you have completed your slides, please see me so that I may preview it with you.
The attached rubric will be used for grading this project:
Eastern Europe is sometimes considered the 'forgotten' part Europe but as our presenters have demonstrated, it contains many geographic features that are unique to this particular region. I hope you have enjoyed your travels in Eastern Europe and we will continue to discover many other features of this area that are distinctively unique. During our journey through this region, please consider some things that you have learned, liked, or like to learn more about, and we will have a discussion about these things in class.
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