Early River Valley Civilization – Group Project
Goal: You and your group have just been hired on as real estate agents for ERVC Realty. Your first assignment is to sell property in the ERVC you have been assigned. Your goal is to make someone want to live in your river valley over one of the others!
Directions:
1. Create an advertisement (poster or electronic), using examples from (1) of the major early river valleys. Mesopotamia, Indus, China or Egypt
2. Each ad must address at least of 3 of the following characteristics about your civilization:
Geography Economy(Trade) Social Structure Record Keeping
Religion Government Advanced Technology
3. Use iMovie or Animoto to create a digital advertisement
a. Or you may use classroom supplies a create a poster on paper
4. Groups may be 1-3 people
a. Everyone will join Ms. Armani’s Google Classroom
b. Each person needs to save their characteristic information & images on a Google Doc in their Google Drive
c. Remember to share the Google Doc with their group with editing rights
5. Fill out a survey (each partner needs to fill out a survey how the group worked together on the project)
The final product must include:
• A slogan summarizing your civilization’s most outstanding feature
• 3 catchy statements describing positive aspects of the civilization (one for each characteristic you choose)
• appropriate images and art (fair use only)
You must use words AND pictures to advertise your civilization. You may also upload appropriate music. But remember – this is an advertisement!! Just saying that a civilization “has a polytheistic religion” is BORING – be creative in how you word everything… Make it exciting!
Grading: This will be graded on the accuracy of information as well as creativity, presentation and overall attractiveness. ** The most persuasive ad for the class will receive 4 bonus points on your next test**
Group Project Rubric
Category / Exemplary(15-13) / Adequate
(12-9) / Needs improvement
(8-0) / Total Pts.
Fulfillment of Requirements / The group fulfilled all requirements for this assignment.
· addressing all categories
· incorporating words
· as pictures into the presentation / The group fulfilled most of the requirements for this assignment. / The group fulfilled few of the requirements n
Accuracy of Information / The group presented completely accurate information, with none or 1 mistake overall. / The group presented mostly accurate information, with perhaps 2-4 mistakes overall. / The group presented inaccurate information with 5+ mistakes total in the project.
Creativity/ Attractiveness/
Presentation / The presentation of the advertisement was attractive, neat, and creative. / The presentation of the advertisement was mostly attractive, neat, and creative. / The presentation of the advertisement was hard to understand and needed more needed to state more than just the ERVC facts for the advertisements.
Grammar/Fair Use Images
Points: 5,3,1 / Checked for correct grammar and used “fair use” images only / Has some grammar mistakes and/ or used one or two images that were not “fair use” / Multiple grammar mistakes
and/or multiple images were used
that were not “fair use”
Total
Storyboard – use this as a guide through the project
Checklist – use this to make sure your project has everything it needs
· Do you have a slogan?
· Catchy statement per characteristic
· Appropriate images and art
· Checked grammar & that images are “fair use”
· Project Survey per person
· Instructions for using Animoto:
· Only one student will need to sign up. I will assign each group a number. Your sign in for Animoto will be brhswh1+. Please be sure to see me or Mrs. Langpaul if you are still confused on how to do this.
o To make it accessible to everyone the password is Spartans. After you have signed up for an Animoto account, go to account profile so that you can enter in the promo code: a4earmac50dda1247a1ade7
Tips
· Only one person can be on the account at a time on Animoto or the work could get deleted
· Make sure the iPad has Google Drive saved before starting anything
o Download it from the Selfserve Store (Apps Store)
· Make sure you log out of EVERYTHING before putting the iPad back
· After you have finalized your project, share it with editing rights with Ms. Armani through Google Classroom .
o Save the iMovie or Animoto to your Google Drive and Share it with Ms. Armani.
Sites that have images & resources that are “fair use” to use for your projects
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources
https://unsplash.com
http://www.photosforclass.com
http://www.pics4learning.com
https://www.flickr.com/commons
http://www.loc.gov/pictures
Your Name______Block______
Project Survey for World History
You will be rating yourself and your group members on a scale from 1-4. 1 being the lowest and 4 being the highest rating.
Ms. Armani & Mrs. Langpaul will be the only people seeing these surveys.
How would you rate your time and effort put into the project?
1 2 3 4
How would you rate your group member ______’s time and effort into the project?
1 2 3 4
How would you rate your group member ______’s time and effort into the project?
1 2 3 4