Africa

Africa



**Comparison of a city in the United States with a city in a selected country of Africa.** Country Assignments

Rubric

Research Worksheet 

Region Note Card Template

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Wiki Example (Jordyn) Wiki Example (Shayla)

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media type="custom" key="12058393" __Material to cover in research:__
 * 1) Average Yearly Rainfall
 * Make sure you type in YEARLY if you are looking on Google, this will make it a lot easier
 * You may have to add up monthly averages to find the yearly average.
 * 1) Population
 * Make sure you are finding your CITY'S population and not your country's population
 * 1) Elevation and its effect
 * 2) Absolute Location
 * Formatting!!!
 * _ _ *_ _" _ _' N or S, _ _*_ _" _ _' E or W
 * NOTE: There is no symbol for 'degrees' on wikispaces so you can either copy and paste the absolute location to get the degrees symbol OR you can use an astrisk instead (SHIFT + 8)
 * 1) Relative Location
 * Please make sure you are including directions
 * Example: Los Angeles is located in Califormia in the western part of the United States. The Pacific Ocean is directly to the west and the Sierra Nevada Mountains are to the east. The cities of Long Beach and San Diego are to the south of Los Angeles and San Fransisco is to the north.
 * 1) Place Information
 * Include major landforms, buildings, and landmarks
 * 1) Historical Fact
 * 2) Interesting Fact
 * 3) When it was settled
 * 4) Human Environment Interaction
 * How do the people in that area rely on the environment?
 * Food? Housing? How do they dress becuase of the environment?


 * If you need a reminder of the definition of the 5 Themes of Geography please go to this link [|Mr. Donn's 5 Themes of Geography] **
 * Also you can check your book for a reminder of the 5 Themes of Geography. **

Citing Sources in research will be emphasized during this unit. Do not be tempted to copy information directly from a source. You must collect information and sythesize it into coherent paragraphs that are your own creations.

Citing Sources: It is important to give credit to your research. Easybib.com is a great tool that can help you do this. There is even an autocite button that will literally fill in all website information for you. Use sources that end with org. __Resources to use when researching:__ [|Culture Grams] [|Badger Link] [|Kid Rex] [|Quintura] Try to stay away from just using Google as a search engine.

__Requirements for Project (Grading)__

__Targets for this Unit__ Students develop their understanding of an African city and an American city. Students compare and contrast similarities and differences using a Venn Diagram and share them in a short piece of formal writing. Students use the internet and other resources to acquire information about a place. Students organize and illustrate information using a wikispace. Students try a web 2.0 tool to show information. Students show where they found information using bibliography entries. media type="custom" key="27167122"
 * 1) Saved to each student's webpage under Africa Link
 * 2) Venn Diagram of similarities and differences
 * 3) Visual Aid to show each of the 10 informational points
 * 4) Organized Layout of Information
 * 5) Original Writing (At least 5 paragraphs covering informational points) Typed directly on the wikispace
 * 6) Use at least 1 web 2.0 Tool
 * 7) Sources of information uses [|easybib.com](Minimum of 5 sources)
 * 8) Conventions

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