Introduction
This webquest will help the student to understand concept in social studies in the area of geography, governement, economics, American History, and World cultures and history. The assignment is broken up into five days for the student to work on the webquest. By the end of the five days the student will have a powerpoint with information about a country that includes the areas listed above.
Students who will benifit from this project will be in the 6th grade. The Webquest addresses objectives on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
Objectives:
Geography: Identify and locate Major countries of the world
Government: The student understand various ways in which people organize governments.
Economics: Define and give examples of agricultural, wholesale, retail, manufacturing, and service industries.
American History: Trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions.
World History; The student understands the influences of individuals and groups from various cultures on various historical and contemporary societies.
Task
The student will pick a major country. The webquest includes websites with information about France, Egypt and China. Students are encouraged to choose from those three, to ensure that there is time to complete the assignment. The webquest is broken down into five days. Each day the student will research and take notes on a differant area of this country. On the fifth day the student will create a powerpoint, complete with photos and maps. to showcase the information that the student collected. Be sure to look at the rubric to understand the expectations.
Process
Day One and Two:
The research done on day one and two will be in the areas of Geography, government and Economics. The student will look on the websites and attempt to answer the essential question.
Geography:How does this country differ from the USA? How big is te country? On which continent is it located? What is the population? Tell about major land forms and bodies of water.
Governement: What is the countries government structure? Is the country communist, socialist, democratic? What does that mean? Who is in charge? Give names.
Economics: What does this country provide to the world? What do we get from them? What goods do they manufacture? What are some of the natural resources? What do they import? What do they grow?
Websites:
China: http://www.ducksters.com/geography/country/china.php
China: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places/find/china/
China: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html
France: http://www.indexmundi.com/france/#Government
Egypt: http://www.indexmundi.com/egypt/
Day Three
American History: What are important facts about immigration from the chosen country?
What is immigration and naturalization? When was immigration at its highest? What affected immigration? Why did immigrants come to America, or not come to America? Where did immigrants enter country, and where did they end up?
Egypt: http://northamericanimmigration.org/93-egyptian-immigration.html
France: http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/French-Americans.html
China: http://www.angel-island.com/history.html
Day Four
World History and culture:How has the country influence American culture?
Define culture. Where do you see their culture in American everyday life?
Egypt” http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=17&id=15549
China: http://www.chinawhisper.com/the-5-chinese-cultures-and-traditions-that-have-been-adapted-in-the-us/
France: http://www.artfullyadored.com/2011/09/30/french-influence-on-american-culture/
Day Five
Create powerpoint to showcase information gathered. Make sure there are not too many pictures or words. Use the above websites to find pictures.
Maps: www.worldatlas.com
Evaluation
Rubric:
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Poor 0 |
Good 50% |
Better 75% |
Best 100% |
Final points |
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Geography 16 points |
Not mentioned |
Identifies continent of country |
Has continent and a map |
Names continent, map and at least one other fact. |
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Civics/Government 16 points |
Not Included |
Identifies types of government |
Identifies types of government and names a person in charge |
Identifies type of government, names a person in charge, and one other fact. |
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Economics 16 points |
Not Included |
Identifies what country manufactures. |
Lists manufactured goods, and natural resources. |
Identifies manufactured goods, natural resources, and at least one other fact. |
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American History 16 Points |
Not Included |
Defines immigration. |
Defines immigrations, gives one immigration fact. |
Defines immigration and give two or more facts about immigration. |
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World History 16 Points |
Not Included |
Gives an example of the countries culture. |
Shows example of countries culture in America. |
Shows two or more examples of countries culture in America. |
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Grammar 10 points |
Article is hard to understand dues to errors. |
The project contains numerous errors. |
At least half of the sentence are free from errors. |
Project mostly free from grammatical errors. |
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Over all presentation 10 points |
No pictures, paragraphs, bullet points, tough to read |
A few pictures, mostly readable text. |
Too many pictures. |
Presentation is neat and orderly, good number of pictures. |
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Conclusion
It is imporant to understand the countries in the world and their government and cultures. We can see where the American culture comes from by studing the cultures of other countries. We can also understand our neighbors better when we know about where they come from.
Feel free to use this format to study the country of your choice.
Credits
Texas Essential Knowledge and skills standards found on: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/ch113b.pdf retrived 4/30/2014
Teacher Page
Since students are on differant levels, the teacher should be availble to guide the student in the correct direction. Make sure the information they are adding makes since and is relevant to the student life. Students who are not as good at writing can be held to a modified standard. Complete sentences, or fewer facts may be required of students with learning, and intellectual disabilites. Another tool to help students would be to highlight key words in the questions, so the students will focus on the correct words.
To make the web quest more hands on the student can be required to creat a flag, bring example of exported itam from the country, or draw a map of the country. It would be the teachers discreation how that would affect the expectaions of the power point, and the grade of the project.