Presenting the Results of Your Investigation

In developing both your group and individual presentations, keep in mind the "Questions for Reflection" posed in the ERICQuest introduction. Address at least one of them in some way in your final products.

Group Presentation

Depending on your research topic, any of the following ways of sharing your findings could work. Each should have an appropriate oral introduction or presentation that includes some comparison of your ERIC civilization and our own culture relevant to your topic area.

• A video, in which you identify things in our world that are like or imitate ancient Egypt, Rome, India, or China. It will need narration or an accompanying written description to make clear what the images mean.
• A play in which you demonstrate somehow the similiarities and/or differences between our world and the Egyptian, Roman, Indian, or Chinese world
• A timeline that has a written explanation of some of the events in Egyptian, Roman, Indian, or Chinese history and allows for comparison with events in U.S. history
• A map or maps, appropriately captioned, that represents some aspect of Egyptian, Roman, Indian, or Chinese history or culture and allows for comparison with events or features of U.S. history or culture
• A debate about your topic

Note: Your group presentation is 60 minutes. You may combine these and other ideas to fill your time. Any time left over will be for the class to ask questions. This is never a good thing.

Individual Written Reflection

In addition, each of you must do--on your own--a written piece that addresses at least one of the questions. Your piece must be 4-6 pages long and follow all of the rules of a formal research paper. As it will be expository writing, the words I and you must not appear. Your group will turn in one notebook which has the following

• a front and back cover and a spine insert
• a table of contents with page numbers
• a subject divider page for each section with the author's name
• page numbers

Finally, do a written evaluation of your best, most helpful information resource. What, in particular (give specific examples), made it helpful? What qualifies it as the "best" resource? These may be combined at the end of your book

All written work should be presented in a neat and well-organized group notebook (with names on all papers).

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