Social Studies - 1st Advanced Research Project

Dear students,

As described last week, your homework is to bring in research on the countries you were assigned at the start of the term.

The research should be:

• handwritten (NO printed copies from websites
• 3 - 4 pages in your social studies notebook

The points of research on your country are:

• Main climate zones of the country (eg. tropical, mediterranean etc)
• Main natural resources of the country
• main crops of the country
  
• National Parks and UNESCO areas of the country (if any)
• Recent natural disasters and recent cliamte changes in the country
  
• General effects of climate change/global warming on the country - social, economic and environmental effects
  
• the highest point and lowest point of altitude in the country ( you will need to find a topograhpical map for this)

The project is worth 20% of your October bimestral exam mark. I will be marking based on the quality of information and the amount of analysis - the way that you make connections and your own comments on the information.

The countries for each student are:
Juan Sebastian - Jamaica Victoria - Brazil
Mariana Daniela - Puerto Rico Stevan - Colombia
Diego Eduardo - Bahamas Guillermo - Cuba
Andrea - Guatemala Nick - Panama
Maria Jimena - Costa Rica Daniel Pimentel - Honduras
Perera Diego - Nicaragua Estefania - Dominican Republic
Mariana Rojas - Guyana Jhosimar - Bolivia
Paola - French Guiana Paulina - Suriname
Juan Carlos - Paraguay Florencia - Uruguay
David - Ecuador Rodrigo - Argentina
Juan Pablo - Mexico Simon - Chile
Issath - Peru Nicole - Belize
Lindsay - El Salvador Enrique - Venezuela

I have extended the due date for the project to Tuesday 16 October - for this reason I am expecting a high quality of work!

Thankyou and good luck!
Madeleine.