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Welcome 6th Grade Travel Agents to the Ancient Egypt Travel Convention! For this convention you will create Promotional Materials to educate future travelers to Egypt. You will be learning about many different aspects of life in Egypt during ancient times. You and your team of travel agents will use the Internet and other resources to learn about the art, architecture, daily life, government, customs, and religion of the people who lived during ancient times in in Egypt.
You and your team of travel agents must create a travel brochure using Microsoft Office Publisher to educate travelers about life in ancient Egypt incorporating text and graphics. Your group will also produce a travel Poster that will entice travelers to come to this ancient country. Your poster should represent some aspect your team believes is representative of your travel brochure. You will then present your information in a Microsoft Office PowerPoint show consisting of 5 slides.
Your class will be divided into groups of 4 participants. Each group will work on one of the travel brochure guides below. You can find information to help you create your project by accessing the student resources as well as the material from the resource table your teacher will have in your classroom. Each member will focus on gathering information about one aspect listed for each brochure. The final product must include information about all four aspects listed for that brochure along with representative graphics. Your travel agent team will also make a travel poster that represents what you learned while creating your brochure. Finally, your team will also make a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 5 slides that will be presented to your classmates. Templates are available for you to use and your teacher will help you download them.
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Each team will find links to resources to use for their brochure, poster, and presentation below.
Be sure to explore links in all areas for information for your final products.
Unacceptable Points = 1 |
Fair Points = 2 |
Excellent Points = 3 |
Exemplary Points = 4 |
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| Brochure | No work done. No text or images. |
Brochure contains some text and some graphics. | Brochure is neat and contains all the required text and graphics | Brochure is neat and well organized contains text and graphics for all for areas. Overall design shows imagination. Graphics represents the text. | |
| Poster | No work done. | Poster represents the brochure the team was assigned. | Poster is neat and graphics used represent the brochure the team was assigned. | Poster is neat. Overall design shows imagination. Graphics represents the brochure the team designed. | |
| Presentation | No work done. | Some slides have text and graphics. The presentation by the team is fair. | All slides have text and graphics that represent the assigned topic The team presentation is adequate. |
All slides have text and graphics that represent the assigned topic. The presentation by the team is imaginative and interesting. | |
Total Points |
It will aid your students if you can gather together books, magazines and even travel materials about Ancient Egypt to create a resource table in your classroom for students to access. If you have a scanner available, they can scan and use images from your resources or they may be able to read and gain information from your resources for their project components. Below are links to templates created with Microsoft Office that you can download for your students to use for their brochures and presentations. You can also have them create their brochures without the templates if you wish. Posters can be created on poster boards with materials from the internet, books in your classroom or with images and art created by the students.
Office 2007 templates
Office 2003 templates
Illinois Learning Standards addressed with this project.
STATE GOAL 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois, the United States and other nations.
Historical eras
World History (W)
• Prehistory to 2000 BCE
• Early civilizations, nonwestern empires, and tropical civilizations
• The rise of pastoral peoples to 1000 BCE
16.A.3b Make inferences about historical events and eras using historical maps and other historical sources.
16.D.3 (W) Identify the origins and analyze consequences of events that have shaped world social history including famines, migrations, plagues, slave trading.
