A Visit to Africa

Introduction

By studying other nations and their people and cultures, we can learn how to better appreciate people who are different from ourselves.

Task

Each student will research a particular country in Africa. As you complete your research, you will prepare ten slides for a PowerPoint presentation. Your seven slides will be combined with those of your classmates, and one large class presentation will be made. You will then view the class presentation to learn what your classmates found in their research.

Resources

A Good Place to Start a Trip to Africa

The World Fact Book

World Book   (this site is only available in school)

Encarta Encyclopedia

Yahooligans

Process

1. Read through your entire worksheet so that you are familiar with the information you need to locate.

2. Visit the resources above to collect the information for the worksheet and which will go on the slides for your PowerPoint Presentation.

3. When your worksheet is complete, go into PowerPoint. Choose the title slide first. Put the name of your country as the title. For the subtitle, put: Researched by (your name). Continue with the  remaining slides.

4. Note: Your points of interest slide must include one of the following: a.) a political map, b.) a physical geography map, or c.) a special purpose map from your country.

Teacher Tips

Be sure to read the entire worksheet first because you won't find the information in the same order as the questions on the worksheet.

After you have visited one of the resources above, leave it by clicking on the BACK button until it brings you back to this webquest.

Be sure to complete all the worksheet before going into PowerPoint.

Evaluation

This project is worth a major test score.

You will be evaluated on the following:

1. effort in lab

2. worksheets

3. PowerPoint Presentation

4. Presentation to class

Conclusion

By understanding that people have backgrounds quite different from our own, we can hopefully understand why not everyone acts and behaves just like us. This is important so that we can all learn to get along with each other.