5 Themes of Geography Poster Project - Social Studies!



5 Themes of Geography and Culture Project

IB Aims- Appreciate the range of human and environmental commonalities and diversities

Task: Your final project for this unit is to create an informative website, in which you use the 5 Themes of Geography and the elements of culture to describe a place you’ve never been. You may pick an entire country or a just a single city, but it cannot be somewhere you have already visited. You will research your chosen place with at least two sources (one must be a book) and then create a website in which you use the 5 themes of geography and elements of culture to describe the place.

In your project include detailed descriptions of …

Location - sentence or bullet for each

➢ Relative

➢ Absolute

❖ Place - include one paragraph for each of the following. In addition to your descriptions of place include how these characteristics impact society.

➢ Physical Characteristics

➢ Human Characteristics

❖ Human and Environment Interaction - describe how humans modify, adapt to, or depend on their environment in at least one paragraph. How are people constrained by their environment and how do they adapt to those constraints?

Movement – pick two of the following aspects of movement and describe them in a paragraph or two. How do people, goods, and ideas move and how might that enrich a culture but also create tensions between people?

➢ People

➢ Goods

➢ Ideas

❖ Region – list and describe at least three regions of which your place is a part - e.g. climate region, political region, geographical, religious region… In what ways is your place united with other places due to common characteristics?

❖ Elements of Culture – choose 4 of the 7 elements of culture below and describe them in detail

➢ Social Organization

➢ Customs and Traditions

➢ Language (If you choose language, add a 5th element.)

➢ Arts and Literature

➢ Religion

➢ Forms of Government

➢ Economic Systems

• 5 relevant graphics

• You must turn in a paper bibliography/works cited page in MLA format

** Note – To get to the highest levels of the rubric you must go beyond just basic descriptions. You need to explain why these themes are significant to the place you are describing and how they truly impact the lives of the people, the environment, etc of that place. Also correct grammar is very important!!

Criterion A: Knowledge and Understanding – (Grading knowledge shown of your place, use of terms, detail of descriptions.)

|Level |Descriptor |

| | |

| |uses more than the required elements of culture and physical and human characteristic terminology accurately and |

|4.0-3.5 |appropriately |

| |uses a some of the elements of culture required and physical and human characteristic terminology of terminology |

|3.0-2.5 |accurately and appropriately |

| |uses unit terminology accurately or appropriately |

|2.0-1.5 | |

| |makes a limited attempt to use some relevant terminology |

|1.0-0.5 | |

| |The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors given above. |

|0 | |

Criterion B: Investigating

|Level |Descriptor |

|4.0-3.5 |uses methods accurately to collect and record appropriate and varied information consistent with the research question and includes a|

| |detailed work cited page. |

|3.0-2.5 |uses methods to collect and record appropriate information consistent with the research question and includes a detailed work cited |

| |page |

|2.0-1.5 |uses a method or methods to collect and record some information consistent with the research question and includes a work cited page |

|1.0-0.5 |collects and records limited information not always consistent with the research question or is missing a work cited page |

|0 |The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors given above. |

Criterion C: Critical Thinking

|Level |Descriptor |

|4.0-3.5 |Student demonstrates critical thinking by accurately and appropriately showing impacts on society in all of the 5-themes and elements|

| |of culture required. |

|3.0-2.5 |Student demonstrates critical thinking by accurately and appropriately showing impacts on society in most of the 5-themes of Geo and |

| |elements of culture |

|2.0-1.5 |Student shows impacts on society of few of 5-themes of Geo. |

|1.0-0.5 |Student shows impact on society of at least one of the 5-themes of Geo |

|0 |The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors given above. |

Criterion D: Communicating

|Level |Descriptor |

|4.0-3.5 |structures information and ideas in a way that is consistently appropriate for a website and engages the audience. Including a clear |

| |and easy to navigate site map. |

|3.0-2.5 |structures information and ideas in a way that is often appropriate for a website. Including a site map with all of the themes |

|2.0-1.5 |structures information and ideas in a way that is sometimes appropriate for a website. May be a difficult to navigate site. |

|1.0-0.5 |makes a limited attempt to structure information and ideas in a way that is appropriate to the specified format |

|0 |The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors given above |

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