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For compare and contrast essays using social studies content standards.

Purpose: In order to more successfully contribute to community and society at large, you should be current on issues, controversies and events. Being an informed citizen and discussing current events will give you a better perspective on different points of view. You will examine what is happening right now in our country and try to make connections to the past, present, future, and ourselves. Each student will complete the current events assignment individually.

Groups will develop learning stations as it relates to the middle, New England and southern colonies. Each "colony/group" gets a space in the room to develop their stations however they want: legos, dioramas, charts, pictures, power point, slides, etc.

Students were placed in cooperative groups and randomly picked one of four topics New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies or Colonial Life. Students used in class research time as well as homework to create a chart that represented their Colonial Region of the topics addressed in the Colonial Life section.

This rubric is meant to help guide in the creation of your Google Slide presentation project. Each category in the far left column represents a component of the project that will be taken into consideration when calculating the final grade for this assignment. Review the rubric carefully before, during and after the creation of the Google Slide presentation, to ensure that all intended elements of your Google Slide have been represented and all other criteria have been met.

With the exception of a few groups, students will make a presentation for the class, teaching their peers about a major battle during the American Revolutionary War. Students signed up for a battle and they are expected to do a presentation on that battle for their class.

Online discussion assignments are worth 25 possible total points 4 discussions due.

Students will present their current event article to the class.

Role play a Greek god, goddess, leader, philosopher, writer, hero, or other famous person from your studies of Ancient Greece.

Basic 5 paragraph essay with a rubric evaluating each paragraph. The essay deals with Ancient Greece & its influence on our culture.

The student will create a minimum 6 page web site that meets the requirements of the Web Site Design Project "Ancient Greece". Students will have the following pages for Ancient Greece: Inventions, Philosophers, Olympics, Gods/ Goddesses, Architecture, and Mythology.

The student will do a presentation of a river valley civilization. The project should emphasize the importance of the river to the civilization. There should be a map showing the location in the world.

Rubric for evaluating student knowledge on the ancient societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, The Indus Valley, and China

Create a facebook page the summarizes the life and achievements of an egyptian pharaoh.

Brochure Requirements The brochure must explain/describe one of hte key topics in the Foundations of Government lapbook. It must be letter-size paper, in a trifold arrangement. The brochure is to have a minimum of six (6) facts, and two (2) orignial graphics. The graphics must explain/enhance the topic of the brochure. The text of the brochure will be assessed for grammar and spelling and must be in the author's own words.

Evaluates an assignment using Google Map skills whereby the students create a map of their own utilising the features of Google Maps. In this instance the students were locating places in Bangkok