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**Group Research Project**  ** Grade 6 Social Studies **

 Students will be assigned a small group topic. Students will divide the work within the topic. Students will show how their topic is connected to the other assigned topics and show how it is relevant to today’s society. Research can be presented in the form of a Glogster poster or PowerPoint presentation. Students will also need to complete a bibliography of their resources used in MLA format.

Students will be assigned to one of eight topics:
 * 1) Geography
 * 2) Government
 * 3) Wars
 * 4) Economics
 * 5) Society (Daily Life, religion/philosophy, marketplace)
 * 6) Society (art, entertainment [including sports])
 * 7) Technology
 * 8) Transportation

 Students will use both print and electronic materials. Each student is required to contribute at least 3 sources to their research, with a least one print and one electronic resource. Students will also cite how he or she evaluated it as an appropriate resource. Some sources may be repeated but only if different information is sought (i.e. for geography if students split up the city-states, and a source has information on each one separately). However, each student is required to have at least one unique source.

 Each group must address this question: **__ What do you think are the most important contributions within your topic the ancient Greeks made to the world today? __**

Give background to the contribution as it applied to the Ancient Greeks. Then comment on how it affects today’s society. Maximum of 10 contributions. Grades will depend on how creative students are in selecting their contributes and addressing how the contributions affect today’s society as well as how in-depth their discussion and explanation of the contribution itself is.


 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">10 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt;">Selected contributions are insightful and relevant ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">10 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt;">How well student explained and discussed the contribution ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">5 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt;">How well student evaluated resources ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">5 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt;">Bibliography is correctly formatted to MLA ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Information: 30 pts Total **


 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">10 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt;">Presentation is well designed and easy to follow ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">10 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt;">Appropriate images are selected (at least 1 for each contribution) ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">5 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt;">Presentation is grammatically correct ||
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">5 || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt;">How well student orally presented their research ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 12.65pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Presentation: 30 pts Total **

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