Ancient History Project

Mr Burton, Year 7 Class

Berwick Secondary College

Who were the smartest ever people?

The purpose of this assignment is to:

Find out about four great civilizations- Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient China and Ancient Rome

Compare these civilizations with modern Australia

Help you practice your research skills Help you practice your technology skills

Your project will include:

1) A PowerPoint presentation

2) A newsletter or brochure

3) A web page

PowerPoint presentation

Choose one of the great civilizations (Egypt, Greece, Rome or China).

Create a PowerPoint presentation showing how ‘clever’ this civilization was.

(eg great inventors, schools, technological advances etc)

Do research in order to answer the following question:

How smart was this civilization?

Next……

Imagine that you are living in the ancient world and produce a newsletter or brochure, exploring the ‘cleverness’ of one of the other great civilizations.

Your newsletter must include: A lead story Editorial/opinion piece Interview with a famous character Adverts Sport report Point/counterpoint article ‘Fun’ element (horoscope, cartoon etc)…

but relate it to your civilization.

Next……

Produce a website on one of the civilizations you haven’t done.

Consider how smart that civilization was by comparing it to modern Australia.

Your web page must consider the following: Discovery and learning Technology Transport Leaders Sport Any other topics you wish to add.

Evaluation

Project grade will be based on the elements outlined on your evaluation sheet.

Content

Evaluation

Design

Talk

Bibliography

Group work

ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

You will work in groups of 4 to 6 (to be chosen by me)

You must choose 3 civilizations- one for each project

You will have access to the library and computer PODs

The project is worth 50% of your global grade.

The grade will be marked down 10% for every day late.

Other questions??

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•When taking ideas, pictures or other items from a published source, (such as the internet) you must be aware of copyright laws.•If you take text from another person’s work you may use 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less.• If you take illustrations or graphics, you may use five images per artist or 10%, whichever is less.•In your Brochure you may only use one graphic per website. If you are not sure, or have questions, ask !!! YOU MUST CITE ALL SOURCES OF TEXT, ILLUSTRATIONS AND OR GRAPHICS THAT YOU USE. Eg Donn Lin and Don “Daily Life in Ancient Rome The Life & Times of Early Man!. Oct 2002. . 17 July 17, 2003 < http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Romelife.html>.

COPYRIGHT RULES

Let’s take a look at some samples

Let’s look at a sample:

PowerPoint presentation

newsletter

web page.

Good luck!!

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