Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Standards:
Common Core:
SSWG8: Describe the location of major physical features and their impact on Canada and the
Unites States.
ELACC11-12W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization,
and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
ELACC11-12W5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing,
rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a
specific purpose and audience.
ELACC11-12W6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update
individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new
arguments or information.
ELACC11-12SL4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear
and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or
opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style
are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range or formal and informal tasks.
ELACC11-12SL5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual,
and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning,
and evidence and to add interest.
Standards for the 21st Century Learner:
1.1.4: Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questions.
1.1.5: Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity,
appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context.
1.3.5: Use information technology responsibly.
1.4.4: Seek appropriate help when it is needed.
2.1.4: Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information.
2.2.4: Demonstrate personal productivity by completing products to express learning.
3.1.4: Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and
understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess.
Essential Questions:
How do I take information that I have read and create a research project?
Vocabulary
Capital, representatives, senators, postal code, organization, planning, revising,
editing, Internet, technology, PowerPoint, publishing
Assessment Evidence
Learning Activities
Formative Tasks
Summative Tasks
Informational PowerPoint
Information Literacy
Destiny
Complete Sentences
Transfer of Notes to
PowerPoint
Culturegrams
Editing PowerPoint
Animating PowerPoint
Materials Used: