Mr. Price 2008
Earth Science
Virginia Geology Power Point Project
Each student will create a power point presentation on the 5 Physiographic Provinces of
Virginia. Each power point will be 21 slides long (5 provinces x 4 categories for each
province = 20 slides) + 1 Title Slide.
**Slide 1 will be the Title slide and will contain the students name, the period and the
date along with the title The 5 Physiographic Provinces of Virginia.
*Slide 2 for all Power points will be on the Topography of the Coastal Plain
*Slide 3 for all Power points will be on the Resources/Industry of the Coastal Plain
*Slide 4 for all Power points will be on the Cities and Landmarks of the Coastal Plain
And so on, and so on until you end with the 21st slide which will be on the Historical
Geology of the Appalachian Plateau.
The students will obtain their information for this project from cooperative research
groups that will conduct research in class the week prior to completing the project.
The 5 Physiographic Provinces
1. Coastal Plain
2. Piedmont
3. Blue Ridge
4. Valley and Ridge
5. Appalachian Plateau
The 4 Categories of information needed for each slide are:
1. Topography of the province
-Land features, elevation and type of rock in the province
-Significant bodies of water in the province
2. Resources/Industry found in the province
-What is grown, mined, harvested, collected or used as a resource from the
province. What does the province specialize in?
-Industry is the jobs that a majority of the people of the region work in.
(Farming, military, mining………)
3. Cities/Landmarks found in the province.
-Landmark examples (Natural Bridge, Lurray Caverns, Chesapeake Bay,
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel……)
4. Historical Geology of the province
-Age of the rocks found (from what geologic period)
-Types and age of fossils found
-Other significant geologic events in your province. (Mountain building,
covered with oceans, covered with ice/glaciers.)
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Virginia Geology Project Rubric
Information/content
= 80pts.
-Each province is worth a maximum of 16pts., 4 possible pts. for each of the 4
categories. (4x4=16) (16pts. x 5categories = 80 total pts.)
1 pt. 2 pts. 3 pts. 4 pts. Graphics/pictures
Category is missing or has no information.
Category is minimally explained with no examples or data.
Category is reasonably explained with some examples and data.
Category is completely explained with good examples and data.
= 20 pts.
-Each province will have a minimum of one graphic/picture used in the
Power point.
1 pt. 2 pts. 3pts. 4pts. -
-No graphics for this province.
-Contains graphics that do not pertain to the information being
presented.
-Contains graphics that somewhat pertain to what is being
presented.
-Contains graphics that pertain and add to the information being
presented.
Some web sites that you can obtain graphics from.
http://www.wm.edu/geology/virginia/
http://geology.com/states/virginia.shtml
http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/vageol/vahist/PhysProv.html