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)