Process

  
Step 1: Overview of Your Country

Find a map of your country. Create an itinerary of a trip that would take your group through or by:

  • 5 cities or towns,
  • landforms
  • water bodies.

The route must begin and end in the captial city.
Step 2: Overview of National Geography Standards
  • Choose one standard under the elements of Places and Regions, Human Systems, and Environment and Society.
  • Write them in your own words.
  • Give an example from your own experience that fits the standard.
  
Step 3: Job Descriptions/Roles
  • Read each of the three job descriptions: Geologist, Anthropologist and Environmentalist.
  • Each member of your group will choose one job.
  • You will complete the standards for your chosen job.
Step 4: Research
  • Each person will research and visit three places (one that meets each standard) for your geo-journal.
  • Create a folder of pictures to be used later in your journal. Be sure to write captions to go with each picture at the time you save it.
  • Create a bibliography collection page to use later. Collect source information as you go.
Step 5: Destinations
  • Complete the destinations page for the 3 places you researched and visited.
Step 6: Geo-Journal
  • Each person will complete a geo-journal page for the group website.
  • Work together as a group to determine what the site should look like and what consistent formatting you would like to have.
  • The web page should be a journal with annotations including all of information on your Destinations page.
  • In addition, you must include a map related to the site and one other visual related to your role.
Step 7: Bibliography
  • Create a bibliography page for your web page using the MLA Style Guide.
  
Step 8: Putting Together the Home Page
  • Finally, your group will design how to put all of the pages together into a web site to present to the class and to the National Geographic Society for your interview.
  
Step 9: Web Travel Presentations
  • Every group will open their web site in the computer lab.
  • You will all have passports and stamps to carry from destination to destination.
  • One person from each group will stay with your web site to answer questions and show the site. This job will rotate so that everyone has a chance to travel and to present. Be sure to stamp the passports of the visitors!
  
Step 10: Cover Letter

Write a letter to the National Geographic Society explaining:

  • why your group should be chosen as the first teenage geo-journalists
  • your process for completing this web site
  • your opinion of the experience.