Geography
Ms.Merilos
Downers Grove North
Community District 99
United Nations Year of Travel
Introduction
The United Nations will be endorsing one country as the
"preferred country "for the International Year of Travel.
This would give not only your country a great deal of free advertising but
you region would also have a boost in the economy. It is you job a minister
to gather information and present your data to the General Assembly of the
UN who will vote for only one country to endorse. It is you job as minister
to gather information, develop a campaign style fact sheet, and deliver
a presentation to the UN General Assembly to sway the members that your
country/region has the most to offer as the Preferred country for
the International Year of Travel .
Task
- The task is to decide which country/region is the best.
To do this, each group will have three (3) ministers who will compile that
date, design the fact sheet and the presentation to the General Assembly.
Group must remember that the General Assembly is a very busy legislative
body and should time themselves to 3 - 5 minuets per minister. Each minister
will self evaluate their data. The group will evaluate each member and
the General Assembly will rate the group. Finally, the General Assembly
will vote on the one country as the UN Preferred Country.
Using the fact sheet, each member will justify their vote to the Secretary
General. This will be used to help other countries know why the member's
voted the way they did. The individual component should take 1 - 1 1/2
class periods, the group component 2 classroom periods and the presentation
3 classroom periods. Total 6 class meetings
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Process
- The class will be randomly selected into groups of three.
- Each group will select a region card. From the region
card, they will select a country in the region to represent
- The group members will become one of the three minister;
Minister of Place, Minister of Environment and Minister of Movement.
- Each minister has specific data to search. They will
answer the questions for their ministry. They will be shown by the librarian
the different materials that can be used in their query.
- When the individual data has been compiled, the three
ministers will meet to design their fact sheet and how to present their
country to the General Assembly. They will be introduced to HyperStudio
stack, poster presentation or perform a commercial/advertisement. When
they decide the presentation style, they will work in the appropriate lab.
- Presentations to the General Assembly
- General Assembly vote and justification
- Election result announcement from Secretary General (teacher)
Resources
Minister
of Place
Minister of Environment
Minister
of Movement
Examples of Rubrics for group members to evaluate each
other and the General Assembly to evaluated presentations