FINAL PROJECT
Mr. Help's Passport
Welcome to your culminating activity - the Mr. Help's Passport Country Presentation
Your job is to create an-depth look at the country of your choice. You must include the five themes of geography (Mr. Help) and show what you have learned over these past units. You will need to pick any country in the world (not USA) and become an expert on it!
Introductory Slide Student Name, Country, and the country's flag as the background colors
Day #1: What is your arriving airport, what is the absolute location, and list the main modes of transportation to leave airport- need image of airport and transportation
Day #2: Find an interesting place to go and describe why. Also, include what the main climate is and official language.
Day #3: Find an interesting place to go and describe why. Also, include any famous or unusual examples or places showing Art and Music.
Day #4: Find an interesting place to go and describe why. Also, include any famous or unusual places to eat, basic food for the country, and how people dress.
Day #5: Find an interesting place to go and describe why. Also, include examples of their main religion and what type of government does the country follow.
Day #6: Find an interesting place to go and describe why. Also, list and show their three neighboring countries or closest geographically.
Day #7: Find an interesting place to go and describe why. Also, list and show three different and unique interesting landforms.
Day #8: Find an interesting place to go and describe why. Also, list and show three specific bodies of water.
Day #9: Find an interesting place to go and describe why. Also, show the political map of country, currency and exchange rate with the US Dollar, and Capital city of your country.
Day #10: What is your departing airport (different than arriving) and two interesting or unusual facts about your country not found in the slides above.
Presentation Style:
14 Slides: (3 -5 topics on every slide/make sure you have at least 2 pictures on every slide)
Design/Conventions: (Proper use of formatting/readability/images)
Due:
Notes of listing 20-30 facts:
Website example to use:
http://www.phrasebase.com/countries/ http://www.countryreports.org/
Please do not use wikipedia.
Some tips or tidbits!
Country Project: Slides:
1) Watch your: Capitalization – Punctuation – Spelling
2) Color of text versus background versus sunlight
3) Don’t put something on the slide you aren’t going to refer to
4) If the number is under 100, write it out in words
5) Bullets beats paragraphs
6) Two pictures every slide – doesn’t include the background
7) More is better – less isn’t good
8) The notes portion under the slides won’t show on the screen
9) Having music accompanying the slides is fine.
10) There can or even should be be animation or transitions.
11) Slide headings – Do Not Have Slide 1,2,3,4 – be creative – actual days or like a brochure
12) The notes and rubric are guides for information – not the be all to end all
13) 1st or 2nd or 3rd person point of view writing is fine
You need 3-5 topic on each slide & at least 2 pictures
Introductory slide: (slide 1)
Name
Country name
Country flag as the background of the slide
Day 1 (slide 2)
What airport did you fly into?
What is the ABSOLUTE location?
List the main modes of transportation when leaving the airport
Image (pictures) of that airport & transportation
Day 2 (slide 3)
Find an interesting place to go & why
Main Climate
Language spoken
Day 3 (slide 4)
Find an interesting place to go & why
Famous art
Famous music
Day 4 (slide 5)
Find an interesting place to go & why
Place to eat (famous or unusual)
Basic food from that country
How people dress
Day 5 (slide 6)
Find an interesting place to go & why
Examples of their main religion
What type of government
Day 6 (slide 7)
Find an interesting place to go & why
Show three neighboring countries closest geographically & name them
1)
2)
3)
Day 7 (slide 8)
Find an interesting place to go & why
Show 3 different/unique/unusual landforms
1)
2)
3)
Day 8 (slide 9)
Find an interesting place to go & why
Show three specific bodies of water & name them
1)
2)
3)
Day 9 (slide 10)
Find an interesting place to go & why
Show the political map of country
Currency (money) rate in exchange with the US dollar
Capital city
Day 10 (slide 11)
What is the different than the first airport you are leaving from?
Two other facts that are not in the above slides
1)
2)
SLIDE 12
Something unique or unusual about your country:
Two other facts that are not in the above slides
1)
2)
SLIDE 13
Something unique or unusual about your country:
Two other facts that are not in the above slides
1)
2)
SLIDE 14
Something unique or unusual about you country:
Two other facts that are not in the above slides
1)
2)
Country Project:
INDEX CARDS If we are live in class
1) NUMBER them!!!!!!!!
2) Use a star or a colored dot to signify to look up or pause
3) Don’t write down every word you are going to say – know your material
4) You must use them – no PAPER!
You
1) Relax
2) No swaying
3) Do the best you can being loud enough
4) Try eye contact – think about the star or colored dot
5) If you don’t know how to say something, plow ahead
6) Don’t tell us what you wished you would have done
7) Any questions the answer is never NO – It’s I’m not sure I will get back to you on that
8) Be a good audience member – pay attention and clap when done