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There are 20 students from Japan coming to Singapore for the first time. It

is an educational visits where they will learn about Singapore history, culture

and society. They will be staying in Singapore for 3 days and your school is

going to host these students. The tour will include their first day of their arrival.

The plane will touch down at 10:30am at Changi Airport.

Time frame: (Two Weeks)

Be flexible. Some students research are faster than they will illustrate and some

will illustrate quickly but need more time to gather information. You may want

to spend one week on research and one week on illustration and critique.

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Objectives

To let the students to explore and research on Singapore and thus

develop their interests.

The students will be able to learn and know more about Singapore

history, cultures, tourist attractions and others.

The students can relate their experiences to these tourist attractions during

the presentation.

Enable them to learn to plan appropriate schedule when planning the

itinerary.

Cooperatively work with your teammates to gather and share

knowledge.

Allow them to think creatively and applied the information they have

obtained appropriately.

Develop a respect and tolerance of people from different cultures.

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Process

You have to form a group of 4 (maximum). Get into groups of three and

select your job as employee 1, 2 or 3. Read the job descriptions above in

the (Task) and come to an agreement as to who will take what job.

Remember you will in a way be doing everything. Be flexible and work

together.

As a group, you have to conduct research.

Prepare the facts gathered for final presentation.

Illustrate the places chosen and gave the reasons why your group choose

to bring the Japanese students there.

You have to fill the PLANNING sheet.

Obtained your information at Resources.

Remember that content is most important and should be carefully

thought out, researched, and clearly presented.

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Task 1

As a group you have to plan an itinerary for the 3 days using the resources

provided. The itinerary should include educational tour and places of interest

that will cover their 3 days' stay. It should also include meals, shopping or

free and easy for the last day. Your itinerary are to be decorated and

appealing for marks will be given on the layout.

You have to write a page on why you chose those places. There will be final

presentation.

Task 2

In this activity you have to create a poster to welcome more tourists to

Singapore and gave a theme for it. You can choose a theme to promote our

cultures, foods, tourist attractions and others. The layout should be creative

and appealing. It should be put up in your PowerPoint presentation.

Task 3

In this activity you have to create a sound file to compliment a graphic/slide

that is based on the project theme that you have chosen for your Task 2. You

will have to talk about things that are related to Singapore cultures, tourist

attractions and others.

Steps

For example, choose a picture a picture from your theme and describe

them.

Click Start, go to Programs, select accessories, Multimedia and click

Sound Recorder.

Click the Record button and read your script near the microphone.

Click the Stop button to stop recording.

To listen to the sound clip, click the Play button. To stop playing, click the

Stop button.

To move to the end of the sound clip, click the Seek To End button.

To move to the start of the sound clip, click the Seek to Start button.

To save the sound file, click File and select Save As. Give a name to your

file and save it in your floppy disk.

To insert sound file into PowerPoint:

- click Start, go to Program and click Microsoft PowerPoint

-click Blank presentation and click OK

- click blank auto layout and click OK

- click Insert, go to Movies and Sound, select Sound from File

- look in A drive<

-click the selected sound file, click OK

Note: The Sound Recorder creates sound clips in the WAV format. For the

sound file to work, the PowerPoint file and the sound file must be in the

same location.

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Planning Sheet

Planning
No. of days required	Activity	Resources	Research by	Starting date	Completion date

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Product Rubic

Slide Show

Was your slide show appealing in appearance?

Did you have all the required elements?

Was your slide show easy to understand and/or navigate for the participants?

Was PowerPoint easy or difficult for your group to use? Explain.

How well did your group work together? Did everyone in the group contribute

equally?

Appropriate Number	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Daily Reflection Content	Entries are vague	Entries contain little detail	Entries contain considerable detail	Entries are complete, detailed, and in-depth	1 2 3 4
Entries	Very few entries	Some entries included	Entries for most dates	Entries for each date	1 2 3 4
Content in Itinerary write up	Contains very little information about two aspects of the culture, tourist attractions and others with no detail or organization	Contains information about two aspects of the culture, tourist attractions and others with little detail, may not be clear and organize	Contains organized, and clear information about two aspects of the culture, tourist attractions and others with some detail	Contains detailed, organized, and clear information about two aspects of the culture, tourist attractions and others	1 2 3 4
Mechanics	Many grammatical and/or spelling errors	Several grammatical and/or spelling errors	Few grammatical and/or spelling errors Entirely in author's own words	Little or no grammatical and/or spelling errors Entirely in author's own words	1 2 3 4
Presentation Design Elements	Contains some slides and few required elements Slides are not navigable, contain little or no appropriate graphics and backgrounds Design and presentation are not appealing	Contains most of the slides and some required elements Slides are sometimes navigable, contain few appropriate graphics and backgrounds Design and presentation are not appealing	Contains all slides and required elements Slides are fairly navigable, contain many appropriate graphics and backgrounds Design and presentation are somewhat appealing	Contains all slides and required elements Slides are navigable, contain all appropriate graphics and backgrounds Design and presentation are appealing	1 2 3 4
Posters Group	None of the elements complete	Few of the elements complete	Many elements completed	All elements completed	1 2 3 4
Recording Group	None of the elements complete or not clear	Few of the elements complete and not clear	Many elements completed and clear	All elements completed and clear	1 2 3 4

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Performance Rubic

Task
performance

Unacceptable

Below
Satisfactory

Satisfactory

Exemplary

Total

Acceptance of job responsibility

Little cooperation

Hesitated at first

Accepts well

Accepts with enthusiasm

Assists others in research

Little or never

A little

Sometimes

Eager to help 90% of the time or more

Demonstrates an understanding of Singapore during the question and answer session

Could not answer

Can answer with the help of team members

Can answer with examples

Can answer with examples and applied the information appropriately

Workmanship in illustration of the theme

Little or no effort

Little effort

Satisfactory effort

Demonstrate exceptional skill and effort.

Participation in critique of other students works appropriately using the levels of criticism.

Very little

Some

Contributed satisfactorily

Contributed constructive criticism in a professional manner using the level of criticism.

Final product /group effort

Final product lacking more than 75%

Final product lacking information. 75%-80% completed successfully

Completed proof 80%-89% successful

Completed proof as per specifications exceptionally.

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Conclusion

Your have just completed an assignment that includes knowledge, research and

skill, scientific research (problems and solutions), and English and reading to help

us communicate to others about our HOME. Hopefully we have a variety of

theme presented. We can in turn combine all the information and illustrations from

each group in the class.

*If several classes are involved, each class could critique what the other class has

submitted and learn to improve on your presentation again. You may also add

more information that are made available. Scan images and make a

computer-generated presentation.

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