Science

Technology

1. A printed newspaper ( group-class)

1. Choose a Team

• Find some other students with whom you work well. You will share a pair of computers throughout the project. You will be responsible for helping one another in your learning.
• Go to Evaluation and look at the Collaborative Evaluation Rubric to see what you'll be graded on by the members of your own team.
• Make a folder to store your work and evaluations sheets.

• As a team, you will be responsible of one specific section in the newspaper.
• Once your team has chosen , you must find out about your specific mission. LINK
• Find an appropiate name for your section.
• Decide which article/s , ads and cartons each component of the team will be in charge of.
• Go to Evaluation and have a look at the Individual Rubric to see what you will be graded on by your teacher, as well as a Team Rubric as the teacher will grade on your team too.
• Then, pay attention to the Self-evaluation Rubric , as you will have to evaluate yourself as well.

• You and your team are going to use Internet resources to find out about the most outstanding events which correspond to your section in the Newspaper.
• Download a worksheet Fact File
• Visit all of the sites provided. Search for interesting facts, tips, and pieces of information.
• Take notes about the basic information from each site.
• Save as many pictures as possible, so as to illustrate your article in the newspaper.

• First, you must decide the facts or events you are going to write about.
• Make sure you have all the basic information about them.
• Choose the appropiate Headlines.

• Now, you must write the articles which belong to your own section of the newspaper.
• Each person in the team will write their own article and will be signed with his/her name.
• Each article will be illustrated with pictures and word processed to be added to the Newspaper at the end.
• Hand in your articles to the Editors for approval.

• Each team is in charge of creating some ads and cartoons for their section in the newspaper. To be able to design it properly, have a look at the website provided on Ads in Victorian Times.
• Distribute the tasks within the team.
• Desing and create the ad or cartoon.
• Hand it in to the Editors for approval.

• Although one of the teams is the Editor and responsible of printing the newspaper, each team is responsible of their own section.
• Each team will create a website with their articles. Remember to illustrate them with the appropiate pictures.

• Each team will have to present their section orally to the rest of the class, by means of their own website.
• Be a good listener while others are presenting.
• Download a Presentation Evaluation Rubric
• Use the rubric to evaluate the presentation of each team.

SELF-EVALUATION

• Download a Self-evaluation form.
• Use the rubric to evaluate each part of your project.
• Print out the evaluation form (1 per person) and include it in your folder.

COLLABORATIVE EVALUATION

• Download a Collaborative Evaluation Rubric.
• Use the rubric to evaluate each member of your team.
• Print out the evaluation form (1 per person in the team) and include it in your folder.

• Each team must organize your articles inside your folder .