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Geography 2011
Travel Brochure
Submitted to Gloucester Township
Public Schools
by
C. Stephen Ingraham
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Table of Contents
Performance Assessment
You and your partner(s) will create a tri-fold
travel brochure and present it to the class.
Your project must include the natural
characteristics that define your country or
region (either past or present).
Include relative and absolute location
(highest/lowest Latitude & Eastern/western Longitude).
Also mention climate, vegetation, culture,
ecosystems, and technology.
Final Performance Assessment
Physical Features
of Your County including:
Landforms, Bodies of Water, Plant
and Animal life on back.
12
Geography
Geographic
Regions
Climate
Including:
Average Temperatures
and Average Rainfall
of your country
on back
Map
of
Your
Country
Inventions and
Innovations
of your society
on back
Picture
of
Interest
Title of Travel
Agency
Slogan
Emblem
Price
CSI07
Final Performance Assessment
Title
12b
Back of
Travel
Brochure
Invention &
Innovation
Look up
Your Civilization
“Knowledge”
Read textbook pages
Then list the
Inventions &
Innovations
Add Art Work
To Fill Empty
Spaces
Picture of
Interest
Physical
Features
Map
Geography
Look up
Look up
Land Cover
under “Vegetation” Geographic Regions
under “Climate”
In MapQuest
Atlas
In MapQuest
Atlas
Then look up
Plant & Animal life
Then list the
Physical Features
on your map
Then look up
Average temperature
& Average rainfall
CSI11
MapQuest Student Atlas
Climate & Vegetation
Start your group’s research here:
World Climate Map
World Vegetation
(Land Cover)
pp. 24 & 25
pp. 26 & 27
Continue your research here:
Africa
Asia
(Ancient Society Egypt)
(Ancient Societies Mesopotamia, India, & China)
pp. 94 & 95
pp. 100 & 101
Textbook
Research
Leadership
“The Role of
Government” pp. 63-4
Mesopotamia
“Sargon the
Conqueror” pp. 68-9
Religion
“Architecture
and Religious
Beliefs”
pp. 62-3
Knowledge
“New
Inventions”
Writing
People
“The Alphabet”
pp. 75-6
Sargon
Hammurabi
p. 61
Sennacherib
“Innovations”
p. 66
Egypt
“Unity for the
Egyptians” pp. 96-7
“Source of
Religion”
p. 96
“The Old
Kingdom”
“Source of
Innovation”
“The Early
Period”
King Narmer
pp. 95-6
pp. 98-100
Hatshepsut
Amenhotep IV
King Tut
pp. 100-1
India
“The Caste System”
“Hinduism”
“The City of
Mohenjo-Daro”
p.177
pp. 176-7
pp. 122-3
“India’s First Empire”
“The origins of
Buddhism
“The Golden
Age of India”
pp. 190-1
p. 187-8
pp. 178-9
“The Shang Dynasty”
China
pp. 128-9
“Rule of Shi Huanghi”
p. 161-2
“Oracle Bones”
pp. 129-130
Pharaoh Zoser
“The Ideas of
Confucius”
p. 158-9
“The Golden
Age” pp. 168-9
“City People”
p. 124
“Hinduism”
(Sanskrit)
Siddhartha
Gautama
Chandragupta
Maurya
Asoka Maurya
pp. 176-7
King Wu
“Shang Writing”
pp. 130-1
Qin Shi
Huangdi
Han Goa Zu
Confucius
Your Travel Brochure
How are you going to present it?
Who will introduce the partners & the travel agency & the slogan?
Who will talk about the picture of interest?
Who will talk about the map & point out things of interest?
Who will talk about the Geography?
Who will talk about the Physical Features?
Who will talk about the Inventions & innovations?
Who will thank the audience for listening?
Travel Brochure Research Topics
Textbook
Topics Ancient Mesopotamia Encyclopedia
p. 70
p. 69
p. 69
p. 62 & 70
p. 61
------p.61
pp. 61 & 66
Assyria
Babylon
King Hammurabi
Maps of Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
Seven Wonders
Sumer
Inventions/Innovations
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The Modern World
Modern Iraq (map)
Climate/Rainfall/Temp.
pp. 784-787
pp. 9-12
pp. 33-4
p. 346
pp. 345-6
pp. 253-6
pp. 778-9
p. 327
pp. 324-9
Performance Assessment
• Create a tri-fold travel brochure and
present it to the class. Your project must
include the natural characteristics that
define the region known as the Middle
East (either past or present), relative and
absolute location, climate. Culture.
Ecosystems, and technology.
Final Performance Assessment
Physical Features
of Mesopotamia Landforms,
Bodies of Water, Plant and Animal
life on back.
12
Geography
Four Geographic
Regions
Climate
Including:
Average Temperatures
and Average Rainfall
of Mesopotamia
on back
Inventions and
Innovations
of Mesopotamia
on back
Map
of
Mesopotamia
Picture
of
Interest
Title of Travel
Agency
Slogan
Emblem
Price
CSI07