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Task Purpose

You will practice the expository and research/technology standards while you are learning about problems which exist in our world today. Our focus will be Southeast Asia – a unit of study in Social Studies. You have the opportunity to inform others about how we can make the world a better place for all.

The Carter Center, located right here in downtown Atlanta, is already helping to solve problems across the globe. The mission of The Carter Center is to promote the right for all humans to live peaceful and healthy lives. Since 1982, their focus on this mission has produced projects to help others in over 70 countries.

Your job is to choose a Southeast Asian country and identify an existing problem that affects the lives of the people there. You will then learn about and find solutions to the problem.

In an effort to educate others, you will share all the information you’ve learned in a final project which you will get to choose. The final product will be graded based upon the same rubric we have used for other assignments. As a reminder, here are the categories:

1. Ideas (10 points)

2. Organization (5 points)3. Style (5 points)4. Conventions (5 points)5. Presentation (5 points)6. Time Management/Classroom Participation (10

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Museum Guide

1. To begin your museum experience, use the “Return to Room” in the bottom right of this screen to return to the Museum Entrance. Click on the “Press here FIRST!” button to learn about the purpose behind your museum visit.

2. After learning more about your experience from Ms. Hutzler, return once again to the Museum Entrance and visit each of the three rooms:

• Task Room• The Carter Center• Library

3. With your partner, complete your Scavenger Hunt worksheet as you walk through each of the exhibit rooms and view the artifacts on the walls.

4. Your Scavenger Hunt will be graded for accuracy upon completion of this exercise. Return to Room

Expository Standards

ELA7W2 Writing Genres - Expository: Demonstrates a competence in a variety of genres: Expository (multi-paragraph expository composition such as description, explanation, comparison and contrast, or problem and solution). •ELA7W2.a Engages the reader by establishing a context, creating a speaker's voice, and otherwise developing reader interest. •ELA7W2.b Develops a controlling idea that conveys a perspective on the subject. •ELA7W2.c Creates an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.•ELA7W2.d Develops the topic with supporting details. •ELA7W2.e Excludes extraneous and inappropriate information. •ELA7W2.f Follows an organizational pattern appropriate to the type of composition. •ELA7W2.g Concludes with a detailed summary linked to the purpose of the composition.

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ELA7W3 Writing Genres - Research/Tech: Demonstrates competence in a variety of genres. The student uses research and technology to support writing. •ELA7W3.a Identifies topics; asks and evaluates questions; and develops ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research. •ELA7W3.b Gives credit for both quoted and paraphrased information in a bibliography by using a consistent and sanctioned format and methodology for citations. •ELA7W3.c Includes research information in different types of products (compositions, multimedia presentations, graphic organizers, projects, etc.). •ELA7W3.d Documents sources.•ELA7W3.e Uses electronic media to locate relevant information.

Research/Technology Standards

Carter Center Overview

• Where is The Carter Center?• What is the Carter Center?

Learn the answers to these and other questions using the following links:

• Click on this link to read a brochure outline all the beneficial projects in which The Center is involved: http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/about/cc_overview_flier_08.pdf.

• Click on this link to see photos of The Carter Center and Jimmy and Roselyn Carter (the links to the photos will be on the bottom of your screen): http://www.cartercenter.org/news/photos/index.html

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Click here to locate The Carter Center:

http://www.cartercenter.org/about/faqs/directions.html

Habitat World

Habitat World is a magazine published by The Carter Center. It outlines projects featured by Habitat Humanity, a Carter Center organization.

This magazine’s issue focuses on “Building Better Futures Across Southeast Asia.”

Click on the links at the bottom of this screen to view projects going on in Southeast Asia.

Creating a Current of Change•Thailand Transformation•Hope in Hai Duong•Cambodia•Laos•China

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Image acquired at:http://www.habitat.org/hw/march_2009/default.html

The Center’s Accomplishments

Click the link below to watch a video briefly describing The Carter Center’s Accomplishments.

Video title - Building Hope: An overview of the work of The Carter Center - http://www.cartercenter.org/news/multimedia/GeneralTopics/BuildingHope.html.

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Projects Across the Globe

To find out how The Carter Center is helping in countries across the world, click on the following link:

http://www.cartercenter.org/countries/index.html

Click on the various names of countries at the bottom of the link to learn specific information.

This may help you choose a country on which to focus your research.

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Choosing Your Country & Topic

POSSIBLE COUNTRIES: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam

POSSIBLE TOPICS: Child Labor, Civil Rights/Freedoms (press, religion, speech), Diseases, Education, Elections/Voting Rights, Environmental Conditions, Food Safety/Supply, Health/Medical Care, Immigration, Natural Disasters (floods, cyclones, tsunami, earthquakes, hurricanes), Overpopulation, Pollution (water, air), Poverty,Unemployment, Women's Rights 

1. You’ll choose two of the countries you would like to research.

2. You’ll choose two of the topics that interest you most.

3. You will research that problem in your chosen country and…

a. Share a solution already being tried to solve the problem.

b. Offer YOUR OWN possible solution for solving the problem.

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Taking Notes

Each time you review a source, you should take notes a separate note card (index card) or paper.

For this project, here is the information you should include:

1.Source (where did you get the information) – This will help you locate the information later if needed and cite your source.

2.Paraphrase – In your own words, write the most important ideas. For this project, include the PROBLEM and SOLUTIONS.

3.Quotations – Write one IMPORTANT sentence you want to state/quote EXACTLY as it is in the source.

4.Reflection – Write your thoughts about what you read.

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Citing Your Sources

• The main purpose for citations in a research paper is to document sources—that is, to give credit to the author whose words or ideas you are using. Even if you restate someone else's idea or opinion in your own words, you must credit that person.• If you don’t cite your sources, you may be guilty of plagiarism—stealing someone else's words or ideas and passing them off as your own.• The MLA style, Modern Language Association, is the standard style and most widely used style for research papers.• The citations appear with an alphabetical list of sources—often called a Works Cited list—that appears at the end of the paper.• The Works Cited list contains all the sources—books, articles, pamphlets, websites, and so on—that you used to prepare your research paper. • The following example shows the MLA style for citing a website: Beasley, Maurine H. “Roosevelt, Eleanor.” World Book Student. 2008. World Book, Inc. 20 Aug. 2008 <http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar474780.htm>.

There are two resources you can use to help you write the correct format:1. Many of the resource websites will “generate citations” for you.2. CitationMachine.net Return to Room

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Creating Your Final ProductYou will inform your reader about a specific problem in a country and identify possible solutions for the problem. You may choose ONE of the projects to the right to complete. Here are the LAYOUT GUIDELINES for any of the projects you select… 

Name, Period, DateTitle

Thesis/Hook: Include the name of your country and the problem you investigated. (Make this good; it is your first chance to catch your listeners’ attention.)

Problem: Describe in detail a main problem existing in your county. Explain how the problem is negatively affecting the lives of the people. Give specifics, examples, and quotations.

Solutions: Share some ways the problems is being solved. Share your own idea(s) for solving the problem. Give examples, details, quotations.

Reflection: Give your thoughts and opinions about the information you have learned about your country.

Conclusion: Give a detailed summary linking it to the purpose for your paper (to inform & identify a problem/solution).

Works Cited: List at least three sources you used to research your information.

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1. Create a PowerPoint to present to The Carter Center:

2. Make a brochure/flyer using: http://mybrochuremaker.com/.

3. Write a letter to the Carter Center using the letter generator: http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/

4. Make a newspaper article using:http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110&title=

Sirs Discoverer

Go to Cobb Virtual Library to access.

1.Click subject heading.

2.Type your country’s name in the subject heading search box.

3.Click on the subjects in which you are interested.

4.Click on the individual articles you want to view.

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http://cvl.cobbk12.org/Middle/index.html

CIA Factbook

 

CIA Factbook:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

• Highlight and click on either South Asia or East and Southeast Asia.

• Choose one of the countries listed.• Learn about problems in the country by

click on the plus (+) sign to the right of the words transnational issues (bottom of the screen).

• Locate other information about the country such as geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, and military.

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CultureGrams

Go to Cobb Virtual Library to access.Use the World Edition version.

1. Click on the continent then country.2. Locate information such as land, climate,

history, people, customs, lifestyle, government, economy, education, transportation, communication, health (left).

3. Locate country’s flag and hear their national anthem (middle).

4. Locate absolute location, population, GDP, literacy rate, life expectancy (bottom right).

5. Locate photos, famous people, recipes (right).

6. Locate tools to convert money, time, and distance (far bottom right).

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http://cvl.cobbk12.org/Middle/index.html

Yahookids

Yahookids – World Factbook: http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/world-factbook/country/

1. Type country’s name in search blank.2. Click on the first article that appear.3. Click on each tab across the top of the screen to locate information about the country’s people government, economy, communication, transportation, military, and transnational issues (last tab).

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Cobb Virtual Library

To access all of the resources, you should access the Cobb Virtual Library, click on http://cvl.cobbk12.org/.

Click on “middle.”

Your teacher and the media specialist will give you the passwords to access these resources from home.

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Welcome and enjoy…I hope you enjoy learning through this virtual experience. We will be researching a problem in an Asian country and developing a possible solution to help solve the problem. We will be working on this task through January. In fact, we will be visiting the library for an entire week right after the winter break to conduct the research and create electronic products (letter, brochure, newspaper article, PowerPoint). To help you do a good job on this assignment, you need to learn about the state standards, The Carter Center, and some resources available to you.

IMPORTANT: In order to view each artifact on the walls of the museum, make sure your cursor turns into a hand, then click on the artifact. For best results, click on the yellow outline around the artifact wind.w

Experiment with your partner moving from room to room and opening the different artifacts. When you feel comfortable, begin answering the questions on your Scavenger Hunt worksheet. Your worksheet will need to be completed by the end of class on Thursday, December 11. We will have the computers for a short period of time on Thursday to complete this exercise, if needed.

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Note: This template was designed by Dr. Christy Keeler. Content compiled by Linda Hutzler.