A WebQuest for Grade 7 Social Study students

Introduction:

You have been hired by a International Travel Agency in Australia to promote a certain region of Canada in order to attract tourist to that area.

The Task:

You will create a Power Point Presentation to promote your chosen region of Canada. Remember to organize your information about your region of choice around the 5 Themes of Geogeography: Location, Place, Movement, Regions and Human-Environmental Interactions.Your pay for this job will depend on the quality of the presentation. Remember your Final Power Point Presentation will be read a Grade 7 audience in Australia; and you will read theirs!!

Remember the purpose of your Power Point presentation is to create interest in your region so that tourist will be encouraged to visit. As a result your visual presentation should be colorful, attractive and informative.

The Process

Your task, which you have no other option but to accept, is to:

1. Choose a city or town in Canada

2. Content of your Power Point Presentation

describe the relative and absolute location of the city or town.
describe information about your location( Place )both Physical (landforms, weather, climate and vegetation)and Human (population, religion, culture and language).
describe the movement of the following in your city: goods (how are imports and exports moved in and out of your city?), people (population trends and changes in where people are located), ideas ( how are ideas moved from person to person).
describe the different regions of your city ( industrial, commercial, residential, urban, rural, neighborhoods i.e. language/nationality).
describe how humans and the environment interact in your city. Within your city how have people adapted to the envirnoment, modified the environment and how do people depend on the environment?

3. What your Power Point Presentation should look like

Must have a title page which includes your name, teacher's name, division, date and overall title-with at least two graphics related to topic( be creative!! ).
Must have a table of contents which are linked to each page and visuals to make this page attractive.
Must have at least one page for each of the five themes and up to a maximum of three per theme.
Must have a bibliography page that recognizes material that you have used, e.g. pictures that have been scanned from books, websites that you used to gather information and graphics
Must ensure that any text that you add to your presentation has to be in your own words and as concise as you can make it
Must flow fluently and not be disjointed. A reader should be able to gain an excellent understanding of your city without being troubled by uneccessary special effects. The reader must be able to navigate through the presentation easily.

Resources:

Visit the sites below to help you to research your city.

Evaluation:

You will be graded on the quality and content of your presentation. Your finished product should reflect the effort you have put into it. Do your slides have text and visuals? Is the text in your own words and not just copied and pasted? Have you covered all the five themes of geography? Does your presentation have an effective flow and could another individual navigate through it with ease? See the rubric below

Multimedia Project: Five Themes of Geography PowerPoint

Teacher name:
Student Name ___________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Organization	Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material.	Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed.	Content is logically organized for the most part.	There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts.
Originality	Product shows a large amount of original thought. Ideas are creative and inventive.	Product shows some original thought. Work shows new ideas and insights.	Uses other people's ideas (giving them credit), but there is almost no evidence of orginal thinking.	Uses other people's ideas, but does not give them credit.
Requirements	All requirements are met and exceeded.	All requirements are met.	One requirement was not completely met.	More than one requirement was not completely met.
Content	Covers topic in depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent	Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good.	Includes essential information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors.	Content is minimal or there are several factual errors.

Conclusion:

When your presentation is complete, you will discover that you have learned a great deal about a Canadian city. In addition, you will have improved your skills at using the internet as a research tool and learned how to effectively use Power Point.

You will now view similiar presentations from students in Australia. From these you will choose 3 cities to visit. Explain in detail why you chose, in terms of the five themes of geography, these destinations.