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The Five Themes of Geography Create your own country

Students will create a country using the five themes of geography. The poster board will have an illustration that accompanies each theme. For location you should have two Defin

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Subject: Social Sciences

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 6-8

5 themes of Geography travel log must have a page of writing for each theme, and illustration
	Poor does not meet the following requirements 1 pts	Fair somewhat meet the following requirements 2 pts	Good Meets all the following requirements 3 pts	Excellent Write 2-3 sentences 4 pts
Location 15 % absolute or relative location of country.	Poor Incorrect or missing location	Fair Information as to location is vague	Good Country located properly using only latitude or longitude and/or relative location information	Excellent Country located properly using accurate lines of latitude and longitude and/or relative location information
Place 15 % Physical and human characteristics of the country.	Poor No physical and/or human characteristics is indicated.	Fair incorrect physical and/or human characteristics	Good List only physical or human characteristics .	Excellent List of complete physical and human characteristics indicated.
Region 15 % Classification of region	Poor Region is not properly classified.	Fair Region is not properly classified and some physical features and/or human characteristics of the region are missing	Good Region is properly classified,but only includel physical features or human characteristics	Excellent Region is properly classified, including all physical features and/or human characteristics
Movement 15 % Movement of people, goods, and ideas	Poor Incorrect information or lack of information.	Fair Some information regarding human-environmental interaction is given. Incomplete information.	Good Two areas of are movement covered. Full and complete information.	Excellent Three areas of movement are covered. Full and complete information
illustrations 20 % each illustration should be on the left hand side of the book, and enhance the theme covered in the writing.	Poor No illustration& No writing	Fair Illustration is sloppy and does not enhance the theme being covered in the writing. Illustration is not in the proper place.	Good Illustration is done with care, but the theme is not covered in the writing. No writing to cover the theme	Excellent Illustration is done with care, and enhances the theme being covered in the writing.
Human-environment interaction 15 % How the people who live there adapted to the environment.	Poor Incorrect information or lack of information	Fair Some information regarding human-environmental interaction is given. Incomplete information	Good Only 2 areas of human-environmental interaction are covered. Full and complete information.	Excellent At least 3 areas of human-environmental interaction are covered. Full and complete information.
Sentence Structure 20 % Write 2-3 sentences about each theme	Poor Incorrect sentence structure or no sentence is written	Fair Write 1 complete sentence about each theme	Good Write 2 complete sentences about each theme	Excellent Write 3 complete sentences about each theme

Keywords:

Location, Place,Movement,Human-environment interaction

Subjects:

Social Sciences

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Project

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