Since the end of the school year is upon us and we have finished state testing, the students are starting to get a little restless. To keep them from jumping out the windows or bouncing off the walls I created two different End of the Year Projects. My eighth graders are working on the “Dream Vacation Project.”
Basically they are making a slideshow presentation of somewhere they would like to visit if cost wasn’t an issue. I specifically spelled out what needed to go on each slide. They got the following directions from me:
- Slide 1: Title, name of place, and pictures of the place you would love to vacation at
- Slide 2: Why would you like to go there?
- Include pictures and at least 3 complete sentences
- Slide 3: Answer the questions
- What are the people like?
- What types of food do they eat?
- What type of music do they listen to? (find a link on Youtube and add it)
- Slide 4: Geography
- Where is the place located? (Country? Continent?)
- What is the climate like?
- What is the geography like? (Beaches? Mountains? Valleys?)
- Include pictures
- Slide 5: Education
- Do they go to school?
- What is school like?
- What does a school day look like?
- Include pictures
- Slide 6: Works Cited
- Please include a citation from where you got all of your information from
- Remember, google is not a citation!
- Everything must be in your own words! No copying!
I can’t wait to see how the projects turn out and the students are excited to have something fun to do the last couple weeks of school.
