Attention Stragglers

For anyone who has not turned in a PPT, a map, excel sheet, bibliography, or completed your demonstrations....

PLEASE DO SO BY 3:00 Friday.

If there is a problem, you must come and see me.

What you are turning in

Here is what you are turning in with your project...

1 - PowerPoint (6 slides per page)
2 - Travel Map
3 - Expense Sheet
4 - Eight Elements Graphic Organizer

Printing our PPT

Here are the steps we discussed at the beginning of class.  I will NOT accept projects turned in as full slides.

1 - Click on "FILE"
2 - Select the "Print" option
3 - Select the "Full Page Slide" button
4 - Choose "6 Slides Vertical"

Please be sure to preview the job before you print it and to make sure you are printing to the correct location.

Steps for using printscreen

Here is the list of steps from our mini-lesson today.

1 - Hit button (PTRSC)
2 - Paste into PowerPoint
3 - Format Picture
4 - Crop Picture
5 - Edit picture size

The pages that need to be on the PowerPoint where you will use this process are:
- Expense sheet
- Eight Elements graphic organizer
- Phrasebook
- Bibliography

BASIC FACTS (for those who didn't see the first time)

Here is the list of basic facts you will need to know for your Demonstration.  You must be able to provide at least five basic facts from this list:

- HDI Rank
- Population
- Capital city
- Style of government
- Major Religion
- Language spoken
- Large/Major/Well-known cities (2)
- Literacy Rates

Project due date CHANGE

Your Western Europe Vacation Project due date is now WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19TH.

We will not have any days in a computer lab as a group after that.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks
Mr. Lawhead

Project Reminders - Thursday 12-13

1 - Demonstrations NEED TO GET COMPLETED.  Please make sure that you are coming to see either myself or Ms. Swope/Mrs. Groft depending on the class you are in.

2 - WORK OUTSIDE OF CLASS.  You must do some work at home at this point to get finished by next Wednesday or Thursday.

Thursday - Helpful Sites

Hey gang.  Here are the best sites to use for the rental car and flights.

Rental Car

www.europcar.com

www.autoeurope.com

Flights

www.orbitz.com

www.expedia.com

If there are any issues, let me know.

Calendar Changes!!

Two small calendar changes for due dates...

1 - The PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY will be due on Thursday instead of Friday.
You will need three (3) examples of physical locations in your country with a picture and a description.

2 - The FLIGHT and RENTAL CAR will be due Friday instead of Wednesday and Thursday.

Update your calendars as soon as you can.  Thanks.

Upcoming Due Dates

Here are some due dates this week for certain parts of the project:

TUESDAY - You should have all THREE CITIES picked by today. You should have a REASON for why you are visiting each city.

WEDNESDAY - Your TRAVEL MAP should be finished by today. You should also have your FLIGHT information finalized.

THURSDAY - Your PHRASEBOOK should be finished by today.  You should also have a RENTAL CAR by the end of the day.

FRIDAY -You should have all information for your PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY saved by today.

Vacation Projects

Hey gang!  If you didn't finish and hand in your vacation projects for Western Europe, please make sure they get to me by this Thursday.  You must hand in:
- Travel Map
- Excel Sheet
- Bibliography
- Eight Elements Graphic Oraganizer
- PowerPoint (six slides per page)

You must also complete all the demonstration portions of the rubric.  Please make sure you get this to me by Thursday!  Thanks for all your hard work.

Mr. Lawhead

Basic Facts?

Some of you have struggled a little early with the "Basic Facts" section in your Demonstrations Rubric.  Here is a few examples of what we are looking for:

- HDI Rank
- Population
- Capital city
- Style of government
- Major Religion
- Language spoken
- Large/Major/Well-known cities
- Literacy Rates

If you can think of other basic facts about countries, please feel free to list them.  Remember, you can retake these parts of the Demonstrations Rubric whenever you would like.  Any questions, please ask.

Mr. Lawhead

Currency Converters

Here are two pretty reliable sites for our currency conversion that we are doing in our project.  Just click on either link below.

http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Vacation Rubric

Hey gang.  Please refer to this worksheet on a daily basis to make sure that you are doing what you need to do on this project.  It is a two page rubric with some reflection questions that we will complete together on the last day of the project.  Any questions, please come and see me.

Western Europe Vacation Rubric

Western Europe Vacation Project

Western Europe Vacation Project

Additional email address...

Here is my school GMAIL account address:

matthew_lawhead@southwesternsd.org

This is another option to send your projects in. I will put your PowerPoint projects into the Sharable Drive if you send it to me, but you must print out both Excel Sheets and the Map and HAND THEM TO ME.

Thanks.

How to email projects....

Some folks have been asking me about emailing projects. My school email is listed below:

matthew_lawhead@swsd.k12.pa.us

Hopefully it gets through the filters. If not, you MUST bring in your project via a thumbdrive or email it to your school Gmail account and save it to our Sharable Drive.

Thanks.

Saddle Up!

Lot of work to do this week!!! Saddle up and get ready to work. Projects are due TUESDAY. You MUST work at home to finish this project.