Science Fair Project

Information coming home and here Oct. 13, 2010.

Explorer Power Point Presentation

Your Power Point presentation must include at least five informational slides and at least four pictures. You should also include a title slide which has your name and the name of the explorer on it. Your last slide will be a bibliography slide. The bibliography slide will be a list of all the websites you used to create your presentation. This includes the sites you used for pictures. You will have a total of at least 7 slides. Your presentation should include the following information.

 

• Name of explorer
• Date of the explorer’s birth and death
• Country the explorer sailed for
• Voyage dates
• Description of Voyage
• Discoveries
• Interesting facts
• Flag of the country where the explorer was born.

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/Joo2678F/timeline.htm

Click on “second route” to find a list of explorers.

 

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/explorer.htm

 

http://www.elizagethan-era.org.uk/european-explorers.htm

 

http://www.wikipedia.org

 

You may use additional websites, but you must be sure to write down their addresses for your bibliography. Remember to keep track of the websites where you copied pictures.

 

Native American Project Sheet

Using the sheet titled Keeping Traditions Alive, students are to complete six projects. These projects will be due on Tuesday, September 15, 2010. One of the projects MUST be from numbers 2, 7, or 10 as part of the six required projects. Any five projects from the remaining canoes may be chosen. Students may choose to do more than one from the mandatory numbers 2, 7, or 10 as part of the six required projects. All work should be done by the students. Parents should assist with the collection of materials, aid in finding information, supervising internet usage, and by checking to see if the work is being done in a timely manner. The Keeping Traditions Alive sheet should be kept and turned in on the due date along with thecompleted projects. Projects cannot be turned in early. The following items are requirements. Unless otherwise stated imagination and creativity should be used. All projects should be neat and colorful.

Items are not to be completed on lined notebook paper. Construction or manila paper can be sent home as needed. Please request it in enough advance time to complete the projects.

Items may be typed on the computer by the student.

Each item should be checked carefully for errors in spelling and grammar. Points will be taken off for mistakes.

If number 2, the shelter model, is chosen, the measurements cannot exceed 24 inches by 18 inches wide, and the height cannot exceed 18 inches tall.

If number 5, the game, is chosen, you must gather enough materials to demonstrate to the class how the game is played.

Please return the bottom portion of this sheet only. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ I have received the Native American Project Sheet from Mrs. Allen or Mrs. McLain. My child is to complete six projects One of the six must be 2, 7, or 10. The due date is Tuesday, September 15,2010.

Student's name: __________________________________________________

Parents's name:___________________________________________________

Keeping Traditions Alive

1.Write a one day menu showing the food usually eaten by the tribe.

2. Use materials found around your home to build a model of the shelter in which the tribe lived.

3.Create a travel brochure describing three geographic features in the area where they lived.

4. Make a two-column chart listing jobs and responsiblities of different tribe members, such as chief or medicine man.

5. Learn one of the games played by the tribes. Then write a paragraph explaining how to play the game.

6. Make a mini booklet showing the types of tools and weapons used by the tribe.

7. Make a family of paper figures - a mother, father, sister, and brother. Dress them with traditional clothes worn by members of the tribe.

8. Write a short biographyof a well-known member of the tribe.

9. Imagine you are a member of the tribe. Write five journal entries describing a week in your life. Include information about your responsibilities and the day-to-day living in your group.

10. Make an art or craft project for which the tribe was known.