Project: A nation, a challenge

Objectives:

* Apply the knowledge of this course to a research work.

* Increase the oral expression

* Develop the ICT skills.

Steps:

1. Each group will choose a nation.
2. Search for information
a) Climate:

• - Territory: geographical accidents and landscape
• - Climate: elaborate a climate graph (draw it) and make a commentary following the instructions that we have studied in lesson 1. 
•  -  Do not forget to include vegetation and wildlife characteristics

b) Demography:

• - Demographical pyramid  of the country and its commentary
• - Birth and Death Rate and Natural Growth and possible challenges
• - Types of migrations: comment destinations, nationalities of immigrants, causes of migration. (push and pull factors) 

c) Economy: the sectors

• - Which activities are developed in primary sector?
• - What type of industry does this nation promote?
• - Is the nation affected by relocation phenomenon? How?
• - What are the tertiary sector activities more developed?

c) State and organization.

• - Type of Government and welfare state (if necessary)
• - Borders: Natural or artificial (tip: link this with the terrritory description asked)
• - International Organizations it belongs to: benefits and issues.

d) Bibliography. Remember to cite it using the APA style. Here you have how to do it: APA Style

3. Elaborate a presentation. Here you have some tips to do it

• - Don't write all the information, select that information tat it is relevant and suit better with the topic.
• - Make it attractive by including images, photos or shot videos that can help you to transmit the information .
• - Search for images, photos or short videos that can help you to transmit the information.
• - Be careful with the colors.  

4. Prepare the oral presentation. This link: how to prepare an oral presentation will give you some useful information. 

Final products:

* Group oral presentation

* Group powerpoint presentation, prezi or video.

Assessment criteria:

-The final research will have a mark up to one point in the third term grades: 0.5 points individual work and 0.5 points group work.

-In order to adjust the criteria to the final assessment, the notebook will decrease its score to 0.5 points (that way if you get a 10 in the correction your mark will be 0.5 points)

First civilizations: Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Here, it is the presentation used during the lessons: First Civilizations:

If you're interested in learning more about the traditions of ancient Egyptians, watch the following videos of BBC program "Horrible Histories", in which you will able to enjoy the British humor sense.

Activity: Egyptian writing

As we have learnt during this unit, the Egyptian writing was really difficult and scribes needed to invest a lot of time for having a good command of it. So that, it's time to prove your skills as scribe. 

Here you have a picture with the alphabet.

Write your name following the alphabet. Remember to put it inside a cartouche like in this picture

If you want to deep into the life and work of ancient scribes, watch the following video.