THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

The Five Themes of Geography have been adopted as a key curriculum component in the study of geography, they were developed by the National Council for Geographic Education to provide an organizing framework for the presentation of geographic materials. Recent studies have shown that student knowledge of, and ability to apply these themes in the study of geography is not up to acceptable standards. In order to get the nation's students to understand and be able to apply the Five Themes, the National Geographic Society has requested that your team of geographers create a brochure that explains and gives examples of the Five Themes of Geography as they apply to the region of Europe. These brochures will be used to aid educators in their teaching of geography and student's learning of geography. Your team will have access to any resources available on the Internet to complete the task by the deadline - five days from today.

You will use Microsoft Publisher to create a six-panel brochure explaining and giving examples of the Five Themes of Geography for Europe. The brochure will include text, pictures and maps that are necessary to fully explain each of the five themes and make them easy to understand. You will have five days in the computer lab and in class to complete the brochure and present them to the class.

Find you own sites using anyof the following search engines (search under geography, Five Themes of Geography, by your region etc.)

	UNACCEPTABLE 1	BELOW AVERAGE 2	AVERAGE 3	SUPERIOR 4	EXCELENT 5
TITLE PAGE	Title and group member names only.	Title and group member names and some use of color.	Title and group member names use of color limited creativity.	Title and group member names, very colorful some graphics.	Title and group member names, very colorful and creative use of graphics.
LOCATION	Poor definitions of Relative and Absolute Location only.	Acceptable definitions of Relative and Absolute Location, limited use of color.	Good definitions of Relative and Absolute Location, use of color and a map.	Thorough definitions of Relative and absolute Location, very colorful and a map with explanations.	Thorough definitions of Relative and Absolute Location, very colorful and a map with a quality explanations.
PLACE	Poor definition of Place.	Acceptable definition of Place, limited use of color.	Good definition of Place, use of color and a picture.	Thorough definition of Place, very colorful and more than one picture with explanations.	Thorough definition of Place, very colorful and more than one picture with quality explanations.
MOVEMENT	Poor definition of Movement.	Acceptable definition of Movement, limited use of color.	Good definition of Movement, use of color and a picture.	Thorough definition of Movement, very colorful and more than one picture with explanations.	Thorough definition of Movement, very colorful and more than one picture with quality explanations.
REGION	Poor definition of Region.	Acceptable definition of Region, limited use of color.	Good definition of Region, use of color and a picture.	Thorough definition of Region, very colorful and more than one picture with explanations.	Thorough definition of Region, very colorful and more than one picture with quality explanations.
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION	Poor definition of H.E.I.	Acceptable definition of H.E.I., limited use of color.	Good definition of H.E.I., use of color and a picture.	Thorough definition of H.E.I., very colorful and more than one picture with explanations.	Thorough definition of H.E.I., very colorful and more than one picture with quality explanations.
PRESENTATION	Very poor preparation, read presentation, little or no eye contact..	Some preparation, some eye comtact.	Prepared but lacked creativity and/or enthusiasm.	Good presentation, creative with some enthusiasm.	Outstanding, well prepared presentation. Very well prepared with a lot of creativity.

This Scoring guide will used to grade your teams project and presentation. You will receive a raw score out of 35 points possible, this them will be multiplied by a factor of 3 to come to a final score out of 105 total points possible.

This webquest will help you to better understand the Five Themes of Geography so that you can apply them in your study of geography. By researching these themes, writing about them, and using pictures to show examples of each one you will gain an indepth knowledge of how they apply to geography, which will lead to your success in this class!