G5 CBIS - Social Studies Physical Regions Project

You will be given a region of Canada and create a project

advertising your region!
Over the next few weeks you and your partner will be
responsible for researching, organizing information, and creating
a presentation on your region.
1) You have a choice you can create a powerpoint
presentation, a poster presentation, or you can ask me if
you have any other ideas about how you can do a
presentation.
2) Your presentation should be about 5 minutes long.
3) You will need to do some research about your region. You
should use at least 1 book and 2 websites.
4) You have to include the following:
a) What provinces or territories are in your region?
b) What landforms or bodies of water are in your
region?
c) What other physical characteristics are in your
region? (What does it look like, feel like, smell like
what sort of things can we see that are special to
your region?)
d) What is the climate of your region?
e) What are some things that people can do in your
region for economic activity, leisure (tourism) or
transportation (if it is important)?
f) Photos of your region
g) Maps that are relevant to your region
h)Where you got your information your sources (1
book and 2 websites)
5) We will have lots of class time to work on this. It will be due
on Thursday, December 17th
6) The rubric is below. You are being marked on the following:
- Research skills (including sources)
- Independent work (focus)

- Understanding and applying the concept

(information is correct)
- Communication (Presentation)
- Responsibility (using time wisely)

Rubric
1
Research
Skills

Did not list

sources.

Responsibi
lity

You were not

using class
time wisely
to work on
your project.
Your partner
(or you) were
unfocused.

Understan
ding and
Applicatio
n

You were
missing
many things
that you
were
supposed to

Did not use 3

Used 3
sources. Did
sources
not use a
properly.
book as a
Used at least
source. Some 1 book. Most
sources are
sources are
listed. Some
correctly
pictures have
written and
a source.
most pictures
have a
source.
Research
time was
spent wisely.
You
sometimes
used class
time wisely
but need to
focus more
with your
partner or
independentl
y.
You were
missing some
things you
were
supposed to
include (from

Mostly used
class time
wisely.
Mostly
focused with
partner or
independentl
y
You included
most things
you were
supposed to
(from #4 ah). Your

4
Used 3 or
more sources
properly.
Used at least
1 book and 2
websites. All
sources are
correctly
written. All
pictures and
information
include a
source. Used
research
time wisely
in library.
Always used
class time
wisely.
Focused on
the computer
and worked
well with
partner or
independentl
y
You included
everything
you were
supposed to
(#4 a-h). All
information

include (from
#4 a-h) and
your
information
is not
accurate.

Presentati
on

You read
from your
presentation
directly and
didnt use
our good
public
speaking
skills.

#4 a-h). Your
information
is
information
is accurate
accurate/corr
is not exactly
but maybe
ect.
accurate or
you not
Everything
you were
exactly
you talked
missing some accurate. You
about is
important
did not
important to
characteristi
choose the
your region
cs.
most
and detailed.
important
characteristi
cs
You
You mostly
You used our
sometimes
used our
good public
used our
good public
speaking
good public
speaking
skills loud,
speaking
skills, but
clear voice,
skills, but
could have
eye contact,
could have
been a little
confidence,
been better.
bit better.
actions, and
You maybe
You
good speed.
read directly
presented
You
from a paper
the
presented
or your
information
the
presentation
well.
information
without
very well and
looking at
were
the audience.
interesting

Landforms and Bodies of Water

1) Island - Land surrounded by water
2) Canyon - A deep valley with high steep slopes on
both sides
3) Mountain - A large land mass that is higher than
a hill
4) Hill - A mass of land higher than the
surrounding area

5) Isthmus - A narrow piece of land surrounded by

water. It connects two large pieces of land.
6)Peninsula - Land that is surrounded by water on
three sides.
7) Valley - Low land that is between hills or
mountains
8) Plateau - A large mass of land like a hill, but flat
on the top.
9) Plain - A large area of flat land, usually grassy
10) Gulf - A part of the ocean that extends into
land. Large Ocean water mostly surrounded by
land.
11) Coast - Land close to the ocean
12) Bay - Smaller than a gulf (generally). A body of
water mostly surrounded by land
13) Strait - A narrow (small) passage (area) of
water

HOW TO SOURCE PICTURES AND INFORMATION

For pictures: Write where you got the picture from underneath the
picture. Use a URL from the real website.

Example:

A picture of a peninsula taken from Google Earth on Dec 4 th, 2015

1) To get a picture from Google, type what you want to find in the
Google Search Bar, and click on Images. When you see a picture that
you want, click on the image. When the image becomes bigger in a
black box/window on Google, you can right-click the picture and
select Copy. Then you can right-click on your slide in your
presentation and select Paste.
BUT in order to source the picture, you need to go to the website that
the picture came from. To do that, go to Google Images back to the
black box/window that appears when you click on an image. You will
then click on the image again, and a new tab should open up. This tab
takes you to the website where the image is from. Then, you copy the
URL from the website, and paste it below your picture. Write what the
picture is below the picture too.
Example:

The Rocky Mountains in B.C

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rocky_mountain.htm

2) To source information from a website, copy and paste the information

into your document and put quotation marks () around the
information that you copied. Then, copy and paste the name of the
website below and the URL below the information.
Example:

The Appalachian climate is affected by two ocean

currents. The Labrador currents bring cold water south
from the Arctic and causes freezing during the winter
months in northern parts of the region.

From The Great Appalachian Region website.

https://sites.google.com/site/thegreatappalachianregion/appalachia
n-climate
3) To source a book, type the Name of the book in between quotation
marks, the author, and what year the book was written.
Example:
Yukon Canadas Land and People by Janice Parker, 2008.
4) At the end of your presentation, include a slide with all of your
sources. The title of the slide is called Sources. There should be at
least 1 book and 2 websites listed on your sources slide.
Example:

Sources

1) The Great Appalachian Region website.

https://sites.google.com/site/thegreatappalachianregion/appala
chian-climate
2) Yukon Canadas Land and People by Janice Parker, 2008.
3) The Rocky Mountains
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rocky_mountain.htm

Projects
Joon -> The Canadian Shield
Andrew
Julie -> Western Cordillera
Sunny
Jinny -> Hudson Bay lowlands -> St. Lawrence Lowlands
Joshua
Catherine -> Arctic
Juan
Clayton -> St. Lawrence Lowlands
Jack
Eric -> Interior Plains
Jayden
Sally -> Appalaichans
Olivia -> Western Cordillera
Rose -> Interior Plains

A cow standing in the field

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