Geography: United States Regions Group Projects

Attention Students!!!  For one day you will be allowed to be ME and teach the class!

Each group has been assigned a region of the United States to "teach" to the class.  They are as follows  (in the order they will be presented):

Northeast:  Group 1 and 5

South:  Group 3

Midwest:  Group 4

Pacific/West:  Group 2

Each group is to include information regarding the following topics when presenting their region to the class:

• Industry
• Religion
• Culture
• Commercial Activity
• Tourist Activity
• Landscape/Terrain (mountains, coast, plains, desert, etc.)
• Major cities
• Major attractions
• Why is this region important to the United States?  What is its contribution?

Each group must complete the following:

• You MUST have some kind of hand-out/notes for the class
• You MUST have a PowerPoint with bullets
• You CANNOT come up to the front of the class and just read from the PowerPoint
• Every person in your group MUST be assigned a category to speak about
• Your PowerPoint has to be at least 10 slides, NOT including the introduction and ending slides
• Your PowerPoint MUST have pictures on each slide
• The notes must match the PowerPoint

Presentations will begin Monday, September 16th

Mount Rushmore

Niagara Falls

Grand Canyon