Essential Question:  How does understanding the 5 themes of Geography help you to analyze the current situation of a country?

Overview:
The year is 2050…your country has just been devastated by a natural disaster and will be in ruins and inhabitable for the next 100 years.  Fortunately, you are a multi-trillionaire and have enough financial resources and power to create your own country.  You decide to do just that, and you begin to investigate the implications of creating your own country.  You immediately recognize that for your country to be able to sustain itself you need to attract new citizens that are “enticed” to move to your country.  In order to do this you must demonstrate to them by using the 5 themes that your country is a better place for them than where they are.

Your task is to create a country that demonstrates the 5 themes of Geography and will ???

Specifics:
This project has 4 major parts:
1.  Create a map and overview of your country
2. Write a country overview applying the 5 themes
3. Create a human-environmental flyer
4. Design a brochure to advertise your country

Part 1:  Create a map of your country

These are the minimal requirements for your map and overview:
1) Hand drawn on A3 paper
2) Latitude and longitude
3) Scale
4) Legend and compass
5) Industry and resources
6) Population density of cities
7) Major landforms
Physical infrastructure

Part 2:  Write a country overview applying the 5 themes

1) The overview is a written description (overview) of the country explaining the 5 themes – this is like the brief explanation you would find in an encyclopedia giving a brief description of what somebody would find if they went to your country, but it will focus on the 5 themes:

Location – the relative and absolute location of the country

Place –  information about your location – both Physical (landforms, weather, climate, and
vegetation) and Human (population, religion, culture and language)

Movement – Describe the movement of the following in your country:  goods (how are
imports and exports moved in and out of your city?) people (population
trends and changes in where people are located) ideas (how are ideas moved
from person to person)

Regions – Describe the different regions of your country (industrial, commercial,
residential, urban, rural, neighborhoods – languages/nationalities)

Human-Environment Interaction – Describe how humans and the environment interact in
your country.  Within your country have people adapted
to the environment, modified the environment and how
do people depend on the environment?

Part 3:  Create a human-environmental flyer (More Information at a later date)

Part 4:  Design a brochure to advertise your country (More Information at a later date)

Your Mission is to create an I-movie as part of a campaign to resolve one of major current global issues. You must provide information about the history or cause of your issue, effects and current situation, possible solutions as well as successful projects at work. Do not forget that you are trying to grasp the attention of the general public so that they will want to DO something!

Guidelines for i-movie:

• Incorporate the 5 themes of geography: location, place, environment, movement and region
• Must include at least 50% of images photographed by you
• May include existing movie clips and images
• Must be between 1-2 minutes long
• All sources must be cited properly through MLA format on NoodleTools

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You must include the following:

Part I: Introduction: History, definition of issue and causes

Part II: Current Situation: Current status, effects and future if issue left unresolved

Part III: Solutions: Possible solutions, existing successful programs and how the public can help

Assessment: Refer to rubric for specific details

You will be graded on the following:

Geography I-movie

Name: Issue: Date: Block:

Topic Assignment

Global Issues

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