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PowerPoint for Canadian Provinces and Territories

Your job is to develop a PowerPoint to help people learn more about your assigned province or territory and to encourage people to come and visit.

Log in to Office 365. Open PowerPoint. Choose one of the design examples. Name your file using this format: Province Name_Period#_Last name. (For example: Nunavut_6_Williams). Open another tab and type in the URL as cra.helenaschools.org. Click on the link on the top right for ABOUT CRA. Choose Teacher Pages. Find my name in the list of teachers. On the middle right side, find and click on the document, “Canada Research Instructions.” Use the suggested websites on the second page to complete your research. To click on one of these websites, put your cursor over a URL and click on it. When you are in a website, to copy a photo, use two fingers to click on top of the image. Choose Copy Image. Go back to the PowerPoint and click Control-V to paste it into a slide. Resize the photos by clicking on the edges and holding down the left mouse key pad while expanding the image with your finger across the top of the mouse pad. For bulleted lists, summarize information from your sources, rather than copying and pasting it. Use the Research Organizer to help you keep track of the information you want to put in your slides.

  1. Begin with the first slide. Type in the name of your province or territory (spelled correctly) in the title area. Add your name as presenter on the page. As described above, go to the tab for the Canada Research Instructions. Click on website #5 or #7 and find your area’s flag. Once you find the flag, click on it with your two fingers and choose Copy Image. Then paste it into your slide (Control-V). Resize it as needed. On your typed copy of the instructions, check off which source you used and note the date you viewed it.
  2. From the HOME tab, find the New Slide Icon and click on it to add a second slide. Choose the “Two Content” layout. On the second slide, type in “Physical Features” for the heading. Go to the tab for the Instruction Guide and click on website #2 to find a physical features map of your province or territory, by scrolling to the bottom of the website’s page. Click on the physical map link for your area. Once you see the map, click on it with your two fingers and choose Copy Image. Then paste it into your second slide (Control-V). Resize it as needed. Erase the second content box if you only inserted one picture. On your typed copy of the instructions, check off the second website source and note the date.
  3. Add a slide. Choose the “Two Content” layout. Thenadd a title that says, “Physical Features”. In the area below the heading, include at least one photo that shows physical features of your province or territory, such as mountains, lakes, or rivers. Go to the tab for the Instruction Guide and review the websites until you find the photo(s) you want.Copy and paste them as described earlier. On your typed copy of the instructions, check off which source(s) you used and note the date(s).
  4. Add a slide. Choose the “Title and Content” layout. Include a title that says, “Physical Features.” Go to the tab for the Instruction Guide and click on websites to find details about the location, region, landforms, bodies of water, climate or vegetation, or natural resources of that province or territory. Create a bulleted description of the physical geography of this area, with at least 3 of those details. On your typed copy of the instructions, check off which source(s) you used and note the date(s).
  5. Add a slide. Choose the “Two Content” layout. Add a title that says, “Human Geography.” Then in the area below the heading, add at least one photo that shows human geography, such as people, buildings, bridges, or other man-made features of that province. Go to the tab for the Instruction Guide and find a photo or photos that show this. On your typed copy of the instructions, check off which source(s) you used and note the date(s). Remove the second content box as needed.
  6. Add another slide. Choose the “Title and Content” layout. Type in a title that says, “Human Geography.” Then write a bulleted description of the human geography of this area, focused on thehistory of settlement there.Go to the tab for the Canada Research Instructions and click on the suggested websites to find this historical information. Include at least 3 details you learned from those websites. On your typed copy of the instructions, check off which source(s) you used and note the date(s).
  7. Add another slide. Choose the “Title and Content” layout. The title should be “Human Geography.” Provide a bulleted description about human geography focused on the culture of that province or territory. This could include languages, population, metropolitan areas, celebrations, land use, economic activity (industries) or what people do for recreation there. Include at least 3 details. Go to the tab for the Instruction Guide and click on the suggested websites and search for relevant information. On your typed copy of these instructions, check off which source(s) you used and note the date(s).
  8. Add in another slide. Choose the “Title and Content” layout. On your eighth slide, do thebibliography. The title should be “Bibliography” centered at the top of the column. Do not center the bibliography entries. From the Instructions page, select all of the suggested websites entries. Then copy and paste (Control-C and Control-V) the bibliography entries from the Instructions page. Select them all and unclick the bullet icon so they are not bulleted. Erase those you did not use, and include the website entries you checked off. You will need to add the datesyou viewed the websites.
  9. Go back and edit each slide to check for errors in spelling, capitalization, or grammar. Make sure you wrote down the date you viewed each website you used. Make sure you did not copy and paste text, but put it in your own words, to avoid plagiarism. Save your file in Office 365 and then share it with me at .
  1. This PowerPoint document is due by the end of our time on January 19.
  1. SUGGESTED WEBSITES CHECKLIST: Check these off as you use them, and enter the date you viewed them. Then copy and paste this into the last slide of your presentation and make changes as described above.

1. “Canada History and Facts.” Attractions Canada. 2014-15. Web. Viewed on ______.

2. “Canada Physical Map.”FreeWorldMaps.net. Web. Viewed on ______.

3. “Canada’s Regions.” Canada.ca. November 17, 2016. Web. Viewed on ______.

4. “Come Explore Canada.” Come Explore Canada. 2012. Web. Viewed on ______.

5. “List of Canadian Provinces and Territories by Area.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 12 December 2016. Web. Viewed on ______.

6. “Province or Territory Information.” Sheppard Software. Shepherd.com. 2014. Web. Viewed on______.

7. “Provinces and Territories.” Canada Info. Craigmarlatt.com. Web. Viewed on ______.

8. “Provinces and Territories.” Statistics Canada. 5/12/2016Viewed on ______. .

9. “Kidzone Geography – Canada.” Kidzone.ws. DLTKs Inc. 1998-2017. Viewed on______.

10. “Canadian Provinces and Territories.” The World Almanac: Kids. Infobaselearning.com. Web. 2017. Viewed on ______.

FOR INFORMATION FROM OTHER WEBSITES, use, in this order, as many of these items as are relevant and useful for clearly identifying the source document. The list is long not so that you will include all of it in every reference, but because Web page content and format vary so widely. Note that often you will not have all of these items.

  1. Author, photographer or editor's last name, then first name.
    2. Title of the article or photo in quotation marks.
    3. Web site name,italicized. (Underlining is no longer used.)
    4. Edition or version number if given.
    5. Web site owner or sponsor if available (it might end in .org). This ends with a period.
    6.Date of publication (DD MM YYYY as in 15 June 2016). If a publication date is not available, use n.d. for "no date." Use a copyright date if that is all you are given (as in ©2014-2016).
    7. The word Web and a period to indicate the publication medium.
    8. The dateyou accessed the site and a period.
    9. I do not require the URL (website address) for these extra websites unless it is a photo.

Research Organizer for the Canada Research Project

  1. Use the space below to write down details you find about the physical geography, such as location, region, landforms, bodies of water, climate or vegetation, or natural resources of your assigned province/territory.

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  1. Use the space below to write down details you find about the human geography, specifically related to the history of settlement in this province or territory.

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  1. Use the space below to write down details you find about the human geography, specifically related to the culture, such as languages, population, metropolitan areas, celebrations, land use/economic activity or what people do for recreation in that province or territory.

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6th Grade Research Project Common Assessment

Name______

Below is the scoring guide for the common assessment, assigning a 1-4 “mastery” point value (1-strategic, 2-nearing proficiency, 3-proficient, 4-advanced ) for each standard on the scoring guide below.

_____ Standard CCSS.W.2 - The student used research to inform/explain about a Canadian province or territory.

_____ Standard 3.5: The student used map, globe, chart and graph skills to explain the relationship between physical and human geography of the Western Hemisphere.

_____ Standard 1.1a – The student found and examined resources focusing on a geographical concept and synthesized the information in an appropriate way.

_____ Standard CCSS.RH.6-8 – The student located resources relevant to a historical situation or process.

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Additional requirements:

_____ The student edited the presentation so that there were very few errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure. The sentences made sense.

_____ The overall presentation was designed well, with transitions between slides and a pleasing, non-distracting design scheme. Bulleted lists were well organized. Photos were nicely balanced on the slides. The text was clearly visible and the font style remained consistent throughout the presentation.

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TOTAL ______/24