SOCIAL STUDIES FAIR PROJECT TIME!!!

Social Studies Fair Projects are due December 11, 2013.  All students need to begin working on their project ASAP.!!! 

REMEMBER:  Topics for your projects need to be submitted by Thursday, October 21st.  Here are several sites that you can review to help you choose your subject matter:

Social Studies Fair Project Ideas

http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/news/0506/ssfair/index.asp

 http://mysite.cherokee.k12.ga.us

http://www.life123.com/parenting/education/social-studies/social-studies-fair-ideas.shtml

http://grantcountyschools.com/grant5/social_studies_fair_topics_and_r.htm

http://www.questgarden.com/83/76/2/090620213015/process.htm

Social Studies Fair Timeline

All students from 7A and 7D are required to complete a Social Studies Fair Project.  For the next month and a half students should be working diligently on completing this assignment.  They will be taking notes for the next several days on what they will need and what is expected.  All students will also have a timeline in their notebooks which list when assignments related to the project should be handed in.  These will be counted as homework and/or classwork grades.  Please see the following timeline below:

 

Assignment	Due Date
Hand in a TOPIC for approval	10/31/2013
Outline ·        Consists of main ideas you want to include in your paper	11/08/2013
Abstract ·        250 word summary of research paper ·        This project is about…. ·        This project will describe…. ·        This project will show…. ·        Further, the project will show…. ·        In addition, it will explain…. ·        Information for this project was secured…. ·        This project intends to demonstrate….	11/15/2013
Hand in a list of your sources ·        At least five sources	11/20/2013
Turn in revised Abstract with all corrections made	11/25/2013
Develop Display Board (complete this on your own; DO NOT hand in)	11/27/2013
Plan layout for display board (complete this on your own; DO NOT hand in)	11/27/2013
Plan a creative student made model  (complete this on your own; DO NOT hand in)	12/02/2013
Display board, research paper, model brought into school	12/11/2013

Geography: Immigration and the American Culture

Immigration and the American Culture

You took notes on the documentary “Island of Hope, Island of Tears”. This told of many push and pull factors that led many immigrants to come to leave their own countries and come to America. 

You are to write an essay that explains these push and pull factors.  Using your notes, explain what drove many immigrants to make the crossing across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States. This essay should include the following:

• Describe in detail the push and pull factors

• Use the images you saw to further explain the push factors.  Use examples.

• What do you think the video meant by this being the “largest human migration” in history?

• Why do you think they made the trip under the horrible conditions to come to America?

• Why do you think Ellis Island was called the Island of Hope and Island of Tears?

• Use a true story of an immigrant and relate it to the experiences told about in the documentary.

• Research an immigrant’s story and describe why the person left, what it was like traveling here, and what their experiences were like once they got here (diary entries would be a good place to start).

This MUST be typed, size 12, Times New Roman Font, and double-spaced and will be DUE Tuesday, October 15, 2013.  This will count as a TEST grade.