Our Home Country

Introduction

Everyone come from many different countries.

Many people must be interested to know about your home country.

Let's introduce our home country, by doing this fun webquest!

Task

This is an individual task.

You will have to research about your own home country.

Once you have searched the information, you will have to make a brochure.

You will share this brochure with your classmates.

Process

In order to do the task, you will have to follow these steps:

A) Research all the information about your home country.

1. A brief history of the city, population, language, etc.

2. Transportation system in your home country.

3. Festivals in your home country.

4. Traditional foods, sports, markets.

5. Five tourist attractions in your home country.

B) After finish gathering all the information, plan your brochure.

1. Include all your information about your home country.

2. Add pictures to make it more attractive

C) Here are some useful source that will help you to collect information:

1. You are allowed to search some of your own sources on the internet.

2. Make sure you don't copy and paste from the source you are using, or else this work will not be graded.

3. This source is recommend for you to use:

http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html

Evaluation

Rubric for Brochure

Criteria	Excellent: 10-9	Good: 8-7	Average:6-4	Poor:3-0
Content	¨ Demonstrates in depth understanding of topic ¨ Accurately effective use of researched information in the brochure	¨ Demonstrates understanding of the topic ¨ Make use of research information with an enough accuracy	¨ Demonstrates little understanding of topic ¨ Make use of research information with a fair accuracy	¨Need understanding of topic ¨Reports only the most basic parts of the information
Written Presentation	¨ Well organized content ¨ Attractive and well designed format ¨ Clear and easily understood message ¨ Computer generated with strong visual appeal	¨ Content is organized ¨ Format is good ¨ Message is enough understood ¨ Computer generated with acceptable eye appeal	¨ Content need organization ¨ Format is difficult to follow and poorly organized ¨ Message is not clearly understood ¨ Computer generated but poorly designed	¨Unorganized content ¨Hard to follow ¨Message difficult to understand ¨Handwritten or computer generated with little organization or skill
Research Quality	¨ Five sources used ¨ Use of good sources ¨ Accurate analysis of research	¨ Three sources used ¨ Sources have some good quality ¨ Good analysis of research	¨ Two sources used ¨ Not clearly well founded sources ¨ Basic information with uncertain accuracy	¨Less than two sources used ¨Little use of sources ¨Inaccurate information
Visual Appeal	¨ Imaginative; original ¨ Use of graphics make the message “come alive”	¨ Creativity is acceptable ¨ Use of graphics is good to present message	¨ Little creativity used ¨ Poor selection of graphics	¨No originality ¨Graphics do not match with the message

Conclusion

Having completed this Webquest, you should have a better understanding about your home country.

The skills you learn through this webquest are definately helpful as you go through your life.