Create a Country - Part 3 - Climate

CLIMATE:

1. To help you understand climate, check out the Earth's rotation or Scholastic's weather site. Try this activity to explore this further.

2. Complete the graphic organizer about the different climate zones. (The graphic organizer can be found on the Webquest.) You will also need your old textbook.

Website where the climate handouts came from. Note: there is information here about plants and animals!

Climate Maps

3. Compare and Contrast Chart: Use CultureGrams, the online reference above, your textbook, and other provided information to compare and contrast your country’s climate zones to the actual country in that location. Create a compare and contrast T-chart in your journal to record information. Use this to move forward in planning your country project. This chart will be published on the back of your map. REMEMBER: you will need at least 3 climate zones in your create a country. You might include information about natural disasters and global warming.

4. Climate Map: Based on your country’s longitude and latitude, determine its climate zones. Use the climate region map on G8 as an example. Refer to the glossary on page 750 to clarify terms. Label the regions on your map using a color key. Include a minimum of three world climate regions.

Climate Map Scoring Guide:

*Has the title of the map following the name of your country (EX: Angeland: Climate Map.

*Is neat & easy to read. Limited names are required on this map.

*Uses coloring to indicate different climate zones (1 point each)

*Climate regions makes sense with elevation & location of country OR is explained thoroughly in your caption.

*Includes a key to explain use of color and symbols

*COPS

*Completed on time!

5. CAPTION (See Caption Madlibs for help on this): Connects the different elevations to the different climates. Describes the different climate zones. Describes the humans, plants, and animals found in each climate zone.

6. Line Graph/Bar Graph comparing Climate Region Rainfall in Actual Country with your CREATE a COUNTRY: Pick one city in your real country and one city in your create a country and plot their rainfall amounts. Use average inches per month for one year. Go to a world climate website to find the average yearly rainfall for the city in your real country. Displaying TWO sets of data means there will be TWO different color lines. Use my example graph on Egypt. You can also use the graphs on page GH11 & GH13 as examples. Be sure the rainfall amounts in your Create a Country make sense according to the climate region in which your city lies. If not, make sure to explain this thoroughly in your caption.

Climate Graph Expectations:

*Has a title with name of country & student & which region

*Is neat & easy to read- accurate labels.

*Includes 12 precipitation amounts for one climate zone

*Creates a DOUBLE line or a bar graph

*Used color to differentiate the lines/bars

*X axis is correctly labeled

*Y axis is correctly labeled

*Includes a key to explain use of color & symbols

3-5 Sentence Caption for Graph: Connect the different amounts of rainfall to the months of the year. Describe the differences between your country and the real country. Describes how the levels of rainfall impacts the humans, plants, & animals found in each climate zone. If there are big differences between what is expected and what "actually" happened in your created country, you explain this well. Your caption has some level of creativity. COPS! Completed on time!

7. Cause & Effect Paragraph: explain how one major aspect of your country’s weather affects your country or the people in it. Think about how flooding affected people in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Goal: 4 CDs and 2+ CMs.

8. Caption Madlibs & Graphic Organizers on Webquest

9. Climate debates

Create a Country - Part 2 - Physical Map

PART #2: PHYSICAL MAP


"I like Geography best, he said, because your mountains and rivers know the secret.  Pay no attention to boundaries!" ~ Story People

1. T-Chart: use CultureGrams, the online reference, your textbook, and other provided information to compare and contrast your country’s physical features to the actual country in that location. Create a compare and contrast T-chart in your journal to record information. Use this to move forward in planning your country project.  This chart will be published on the back of your map.

2. For more information about the River Valley Civilizations: Great Webquest to compare and contrasst River Valley Civilizations,  River Video (textbook), Yangtze, United Streaming assignment

3.   Read the physical map of Sri Lanka on page GH9. 

Use this information to create a similar map and key to show the natural features of your country. All elevations (height of land above sea level) should be included. Include major water sources and mountain peaks. Add any other geographic features you would like (R10-R11). Remember that your country must have a river valley!

4.  Physical Map Expectations:

*Has a title of the map behind name of country (EX:  Angeland:  Physical Map). 

*Is neat & easy to read. 

*Has coloring to show at least 3 elevations. Coloring is NEAT.  It allows names to be read.

*Labels (now you name them) lakes, rivers, seas, bays, oceans (1 point each) 

*Labels important land forms- mountains, plains, etc. (1 point each) 

*Includes a key to explain colors and symbols 

4.  3-5 Sentence Caption (See Caption Madlibs for help on this):

*Gives longitude, latitude, AND hemispheres. 

*Describes the different elevations. 

*Describes where humans, plants, AND animals are found & why. 

*COPS 

*Completed on time! 

The caption is glued onto the back of your physical map.

5. Paragraph: write a paragraph describing one of the physical features you put on your physical map. Be creative and have fun with it! Use Jane Shaffer to provide structure if you need it!

6.  There might be help on Webquest.

Create a Country - Country Outline/Flag - Part 1

COUNTRY OUTLINE & FLAG

Outline Map:

1. Take a sheet of blank paper and draw 1” margin lines on all four sides (follow the teacher's example).

2. Determine which direction is NORTH. Does this mean your map will be verticle or horizontal on the page? Put X's down the WESTERN side of your paper. This will be where your "atlas" will be bound. This reminds you not to put anything important there.

3. Label your map with the name of your country on the top line. Make sure it is NEAT and easy to read. Remember: names are CAPITALIZED. (Note: On future maps, the title of each map will follow the name. EX: Angeland: Physical Map)

4. Label your latitude and longitude lines. Make sure to use proper labeling: 32˚N. (When typing to make the ˚ sign use OPTION + K.)

5. Add a compass rose in the N-W or N-E corner of your map.

6. Underneath your bottom latitude line, label the space for your LEGEND or KEY.

7. Right above the Southern latitude line, include a scale (1”=100 miles) - you need to consider this when creating your country.

8. Roll for the number of NEIGHBORS you will have: 1 = island, 6 = landlocked, 2-5 = number of neighbors.

8. Roll for the number of RIVERS you will have: # = number of rivers.

9. Draw your outline map, the shape of your country. Make sure your country is entirely inside of your longitude and latitude lines.

10. Include but DO NOT LABEL rivers, mountains, lakes, deltas, and boundaries of neighbors. Use page GH14-15 for ideas. You will need to know where the ocean or sea is if that is going to be a part of your country.

11. Put your name on the back. Also, record 5 statistics/facts (using numbers) about your country using the scale (1" = 100 miles).

12. Create your initial flag for your country.

Flag scoring guide:

*Includes symbolic representation of your country’s name.

*Symbols represent different elements of the country's physical

features and culture at this point.

*Colors have meaning.

*Words are connected to the culture of the country.

3-5 Sentence Caption (See caption madlibs for help with this):

*Specifically explains symbols, shapes, and words used in the flag

*COPS

*Completed on time!

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON FLAGS:

FLAGS
The Study of Flags
Flag Site #2

World Flag Database

Scoring Guide on Webquest