SS+Mary+Natole

Title: The Worm and the World**
 * Essential Question: How was China the center of trade?

**Map Your Projects** Students will learn about the geography, economics, people and key events of a country in the Eastern Hemisphere as they work collaboratively to develop a nonfiction presentation about a select region. || NYS Social Stdies Standards:
 * Summarize the goals and objectives for this project:
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2 - World History

use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

3 - Geography use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

5 - Economics use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms. ||
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Students will be able to: • Do research on the Internet • Will be able to work in a group • Will be able to create a graphic organizer to organize thoughts • Will be able to communicate information effectively || How was China the Center of Trade? || Understanding maps, geographic features, and art and culture || Multimedia presentation that includes all elements of nonfiction and provides information. Individual groups will create a documentary that includes essential question and conclusions for specific regions. || Text book, Internet websites, videos, interviews, field trips || Content – students will use resources that match their level Product – students with limited writing will record their responses ||
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