Map Skills Web Quest
- 1. Map Skills for Fourth Grade Michelle DeLaRosa Michld24@yahoo.com
- 2. Introduction Congratulations! You have just won a trip to your favorite country. Where would you like to go? Who are you going to take? But first, you are going to need to do a few things before you go on your trip. Using a map is very important when going to a new place. Let’s see if it can help you with your adventure.
- 3. Task During your mission you will need to do a little research about the place you are visiting. You will be using the Internet to look up information, including its flag, location population, latitude and longitude, language spoken and any other relevant information. In your journal you will log all the information you learned. Than in able to go on the trip you have to create a travel brochure of the place. It must include all the information and a map. You can create the brochure by hand making it or using any program like MS Word or Ink. Good luck!
- 4. Process 1. Pick a country you would like to visit. 2. Go to Yahooligans.com and research your country. -Find information about the language spoken, population, latitude and longitude, continent it is on, flag and any other information a tourist would need to know. You will also need to find a map of the country. 3. Log all your findings in your writing journal. 4. Use MS Word, Ink or hand make a brochure to attract other tourists to the country. - Use all the information you found plus include pictures and a map of the the country with a map key and map scale.
- 5. Evaluation Making A Brochure : Trip to a Country Teacher Name: Ms. DeLaRosa Student Name: ________________________________________ CATEGORY 4 3 2 1 Content - Accuracy All facts in the 99-90% of the facts 89-80% of the facts Fewer than 80% of brochure are in the brochure are in the brochure are the facts in the accurate. accurate. accurate. brochure are accurate. Spelling & No spelling errors No more than 1 No more than 3 Several spelling Proofreading remain after one spelling error remains spelling errors remain errors in the person other than the after one person after one person brochure. typist reads and other than the typist other than the typist corrects the reads and corrects reads and corrects brochure. the brochure. the brochure. Writing - Mechanics Capitalization and Capitalization and There are 1-2 There are several punctuation are punctuation are capitalization and/or capitalization or correct throughout correct throughout punctuation errors in punctuation errors in the brochure. the brochure after the brochure even the brochure even feedback from an after feedback from after feedback from adult. an adult. an adult. Graphics/Pictures Graphics go well with Graphics go well with Graphics go well with Graphics do not go the text and there is the text, but there are the text, but there are with the a good mix of text so many that they too few and the accompanying text or and graphics. distract from the text. brochure seems "text- appear to be heavy". randomly chosen. Attractiveness & The brochure has The brochure has The brochure has The brochure's Organization exceptionally attractive formatting well-organized formatting and attractive formatting and well-organized information. organization of and well-organized information. material are information. confusing to the reader. Sources Careful and accurate Careful and accurate Careful and accurate Sources are not records are kept to records are kept to records are kept to documented document the source document the source document the source accurately or are not of 95-100% of the of 94-85% of the of 84-75% of the kept on many facts facts and graphics in facts and graphics in facts and graphics in and graphics. the brochure. the brochure. the brochure. Date Created: Jun 30, 2009 09:44 am (CDT)
- 6. Conclusion Well I hope you had a great time creating your brochure. I am positive that the people of that country will really enjoy looking at your brochure. I hope you are excited about your trip because you are going to have a blast, especially since you know so much about the country. Congratulations on a job well done!