Country+Project+Description


 * African Country Project **

The assignment is to prepare a __creative, yet informative research project__ that demonstrates your understanding of your assigned African country. On the bottom of this paper, there is a checklist of the required areas of research and format options. Carefully, analyze each format option and **choose one**. Remember, each project focuses on the same topic, but you should choose the format option that best fits your abilities and interests. You will be allowed 30 minutes of computer time for internet research, so do not waste it! ** Internet: ** **__ COUNTRIES FOR PROJECTS (Your assigned country is circled) __** Cameroon Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Liberia Madagascar Mali Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Senegal Somalia South Africa Uganda Zimbabwe ** REQUIRED INFORMATION: ** 1. Your Name 2. Map of Africa with location of country clearly marked 3. Description of country’s location 4. Flag 5. Size of country in comparison with other countries or US states 6. Geography (terrain & climate) 7. Languages spoken 8. Religions 9. Economy 10. History 11. Government 12. Fun facts
 * 1) Go to “https///bartelskinsey.wikispaces.com”
 * 2) Click on “African Country Project”
 * 3) There should be 2-3 links to websites for your country. Click on them and take notes.

POSSIBLE PROJECT FORMATS (ALL formats require a map of the country with the geographic information) REMEMBER: For presentations, **ALL WRITING MUST BE BIG ENOUGH SO THAT PEOPLE IN THE BACK OF THE CLASS CAN READ IT.** ** DUE DATES ** ** 12/10 Rough Draft due ** ** 12/17 Final Draft due ** ** 12/17-21 Presentations **
 * Power Point Presentation
 * Poster Presentation
 * Tourist brochure
 * Newspaper story about country
 * Comic Life
 * If you have any other ideas, please ask the teacher!

**__African Country Project Scoring Rubric__** || - Project is very unique and creative - Students have clearly put a lot of thought and planning into project in order to make it innovative || - Project is unique and creative - Students have put a good deal of thought and planning into project in order to make it innovative || - Project is somewhat unique and creative - Students have put some thought and planning into project in order to make it innovative || - Project lacks uniqueness and creativity - Students have not put adequate thought and planning into project in order to make it innovative || || - Project contains a great deal of historically accurate facts and specific details about person that makes the project very informative and easy to understand || - Project contains a good deal of historically accurate facts and specific details about person that makes the project informative and easy to understand || - Project contains some historically accurate facts and specific details about person that makes the project somewhat informative and easy to understand || - Project contains very few historically accurate facts and specific details about person that makes the project uninformative and not easy to understand || || - Project clearly demonstrates that students have spent a great deal of time and effort thus creating a high quality final product || - Project clearly demonstrates that students have spent a good deal of time and effort thus creating a good quality final product || - Project clearly demonstrates that students have spent little time and effort thus creating a low quality final product || - Project clearly demonstrates that students have spent very little time and effort thus creating a poor quality final product || || - 3 or more sources are listed || - 2 sources are listed || - 1 source is listed || - No sources are listed || A: 14-16 B: 11-13 C: 8-10 D: 5-7 F: 0-4  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  4   ||   3   ||   2   ||   1   ||
 * Creativity
 * Strength of Content and Research
 * Quality of work
 * Sources
 * Total: _____