Tuesday, October 9, 2007

World Geography Assignment

7th grade World Geography Brochure Project
Assignment for the East Flushing Library, October 10, 2007

Assignment Due Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 to be presented at a grade level assembly in the auditorium periods 2 and 3

Collaborating teachers: Mrs. Moreno, Ms. Sackstein, Ms. Song

With a partner, you will be assigned a country. For each of your countries you will have to create a travel brochure for the 7th grade. After you have completed your brochure you and your partner will present to the grade.

Your 2 countries: ______________________________________________

Find out for each country:

  1. Where your country is located – both absolute and relative location
  2. What the capital is
  3. What a map of the country looks like
  4. Major cities, geographic features (rivers, mountain ranges, oceans etc)the population – how many?
  5. What is the religious and ethnic breakdown?
  6. a famous author the country is famous for
  7. a famous scientist and/or technology the country is famous for
  8. Native foods
  9. Native animals
  10. The kinds of vegetation
  11. The kinds of industry – how does the country make money?
  12. Some kind of current events happening … why is it important to know about this place?
  13. The median age of your country.
  14. The land area of your country.
  15. The latitude and longitude of your country.

2 comments:

Christina Park said...

if we present our map project, can i tell some of my special places in my index cards so that will make it longer for the minimum of 5 minutes long? can you tell my more suggestions so that it will be about 5 minutes long or less???

Spencer said...

thank you for displaying this I lost my copy of the questions for my country luckly you added it
Spencer Rivera