Ancient Egypt Travel Brochure

CONGRATULATIONS! You and your group have been chosen by the Egyptian Tourist Bureau to design a multimedia travel brochure promoting ancient Egypt.
Proceed carefully because many first-time tourists are counting on you. Plus, you will be presenting your multimedia brochure to sell ancient Egypt at the Annual Convention of Ancient Travel Agents in just two weeks. Get ready to sell it!

Task

As members of a travel agency, you have been asked to "sell a trip" to ancient Egypt. Not only do you want to land this big account and prove ancient Egypt to be the very best destination, you are also a proud citizen. You want to encourage tourism, and show first-time ancient tourists all ancient Egypt has accomplished.
Each group member will be responsible for a section of a PowerPointtravel brochure.

Process

Before starting your task, please click on: watch a video by National Geographic, titled "Tombs of Ancient Egypt." It will provide an overview of ancient Egypt for your group.
Within each of your groups of four, each member will develop an area of expertise. Each member of your group will have to decide on and select an area in which he/she would like to be an expert from among the following topics:

•Fast Facts About Egypt : geography, language spoken, famous places, interesting tidbits

•Walk Like An Egyptian: daily life in ancient Egypt , clothing, food, families, boys and girls, school
•Egyptian Hieroglyphics: What are they? Why were they used? Samples of hieroglyphics
•Egyptian Pyramids:  What do they look like? Where are they? Why were they built? Who built them?
Once the selection process is completed, each of you must visit at least 3 websites under your “expert” topic you have selected and write 5-8 facts about your topic from each of the 3 websites. Record the facts on your fact sheets. Your facts do not need to be written in complete sentences at this point. Be sure to print out at least 3 fact sheets for each member of your group.

Project        

Once you have completed your through investigation of the sites and have your written notes, you are to combine your knowledge with that of the rest of your group. Use PowerPoint to create a multimedia travel brochure promoting ancient Egypt . Your presentation should have at least 10 slides.

Please include the following:

√  A convincing opening

√  Each “expert” should contribute no less than two slides on his or her own special area.

• Choose your words and images carefully. You have a very limitedopportunity to be convincing!

√  An ending that tries to “clinch” the deal. Answer the following question—why is ancient Egypt so special that first-time tourists should make a major effort to see it?

√  A Works Cited slide (Remember to cite your sources, that includes non-clipart images!)

Each member of the group should play a role in the presentation itself. Remember, you will be graded / assessed on how convincingly you “sell” ancient Egypt . Feel free to be dramatic!

Following each group presentation, the class (acting as the first-time tourists) will complete individual evaluations (supplied to you by your teacher) and ultimately decide on which presentation was the most convincing and why.

Evaluation

As a guideline print out this  rubric to evaluate your PowerPoint brochure and then make any necessary revisions. Your teacher will use this tool to evaluate your project too.