Day 3

Goals:

1. Students will become familiar with the goals of the research project.

2. Students will choose a partner and an island nation for their research project

Time:

one hour

Resources/Materials:

chalk, chalkboard, atlases

Procedure:

1. Introduce student research projects that will be done in pairs on specific Caribbean island nations, including basic guidelines of projects - a written document and a fifteen minute presentation due at the end of the unit.

2. Partners for this project will be chosen in a democratic way, or as seen fit by the teacher.

3. List Caribbean island nations on the board and distribute atlases.

4. When students find an island nation, they will raise their hands, and when called upon will go to the world map in the front of class and point it out.

5. This will continue until all the Caribbean island nations are identified.

6. Pairs of students will choose an island nation in a democratic way to research for their projects (as many island nations as possible will be represented with no duplicates of the same island nation).

Assessment:

None

Curricular Strands:

Social Studies - maps, geography

English - cooperation, reading

Possible Extensions:

Students will begin finding information on the Caribbean island nation that they chose.

Carribean Unit - written by Trina Collins, Richard Wheeler, & Daniel Shimek

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