Ancient Egypt Unit
Performance Task
English/Social Studies Research Project
Your Task:
Each student is responsible for researching a
topic pertaining to ancient Egypt and
performing the following tasks:
1.
Selecting a topic
2.
Generating questions
3.
Taking notes from books
4.
Taking notes from online sources
5.
Organizing notes into an outline
6.
Creating a visual summary
7.
Typing a rough draft
8.
Typing a final draft
9.
Presenting information through an oral presentation based on outline
10. Creating a meaningful visual aid for oral presentation
11.
Create a bibliography
Oral Presentation
To demonstrate the learning you gained from
your research, you will be presenting your
research information in front of the class
through an oral presentation.
•Show understanding through detailed
explanation and examples
•Target length (5 minutes)
Oral Presentation
Your Oral presentation is a way to TEACH us by describing
and explaining your topic. It is NOT a simple reading of your
research paper!
Helpful Hints:
•Use your outline as a guide to the order of your presentation
•Write out your outline on note cards along with any specific details that may be
hard to remember
•Plan when you are going to show and explain your visual aid
•Let me know which props or technology you will need
•Practice aloud at home
Oral Presentation
Your presentation will be graded on the
following characteristics:
Content – Your presentation shows a deep
understanding of the content
Preparedness – You are completely prepared and
have obviously rehearsed
Posture/Eye Contact – You stand up straight,
look confident and relaxed. You make eye
contact with others and use a clear, loud voice.
1
Content
Visual Aid Ideas
Along with your oral presentation, you will also need to
create
visual aid the
to enhance
the
INTEREST and
Does not seem
to aunderstand
topic very
well.
UNDERSTANDING of your audience
Preparedness
Technology-Based Projects
Traditional Projects
Make a poster
Make a game
Create a brochure
Make food
Create costumes or clothing
Create a Model
Create a brochure (Word/Microsoft
Publisher)
Make a Video/Movie
Maker/Photostory
Create a PowerPoint Presentation
Make a Prezi presentation (Prezi.com)
Make a Poster (Glogster.com)
Make a cartoon (toondoo.com)
StudentWrite
does
not seem
a Children's
Book at all prepared to present.
Make a slideshow (animoto.com)
Create a Diorama
Posture and Eye Contact
Make a scrapbook (scrapblog.com)
Website (weebly.com) (wall.fm.com)
Timeline (Dipity.com)
1
Content
Visual Aid
Your visual will be graded on the following
characteristics:
Does not seem to understand the topic very well.
Relevance – Your visual ties in well with your
Preparedness
topic and helps to improve or deepen our
Student is completely
prepared
andtopic
has obviously rehearsed.
understanding
of the
Student seems pretty prepared but might have needed a couple more
rehearsals.
– Your
visual shows
that
you
put
a
The student Quality
is somewhat
prepared,
but it is
clear
that
rehearsal
was
significant amount of time, effort, and thought
lacking.
Student doesinto
not it.
seem at all prepared to present.
Posture and Eye Contact
1
Visual Aid Check
Does not seem to understand the topic very well.
On Monday, December 20 (3 days
Preparedness
before break) you will receive points for
Student is completely prepared and has obviously rehearsed.
turning in your “Visual Summary,” or a
Student seems pretty prepared but might have needed a couple more
plan
of
what
your
visual
is
going
to
be.
rehearsals.
More details to come…
Student does not seem at all prepared to present.
Posture and Eye Contact
1
Content
Also…
You will be given a significant amount of
class time to research and prepare for
Does not seem to understand the topic very well.
your presentation, therefore,
Preparedness
Student is completely prepared and has obviously rehearsed.
you will also be graded on
Student seems pretty
prepared
butof
might
have needed
a couple more
your
use
class
time!
rehearsals.
Posture and Eye Contact
Let’s take a look at the
grading rubric
Web-Based Research
The purpose of online research is to gather
information about your topic from a variety of
sources. You will be responsible for keeping
track of your sources just like you will be for
book-based information. I will have specific
forms for you to keep track of your online
research.
Web-Based Research
There are 4 places in which you
can find information for your
project.
1. World Book Online (IMC Page)
2. List of category links (on Mrs. T’s and
Mr. Froom’s Edline pages)
3. Student Resource Center (IMC Page)
4. Google searches
World Book Online
Student Resource
Center
Edline Links
Google Searches
My favorites:
•History for kids.org
•Woodlands History
•Egyptology Online
•An introduction to the history and culture
of
Pharaonic Egypt