Name: __________________________ Date: _____________

Global Issue of a Country

Inquiry Assignment

Objectives: To learn about a country’s social or environmental issue. To practice research

skills: using sources; reading for information; note-taking; summarizing; and citing sources.

Step A. Choose & Identify your country

Country: _______________________________________
Location: ______________________________________
Population: ____________________
Interesting Facts (2):
1. _____________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________
Environmental or Social Issue:
_________________________________________________________

Step B. Find 3 reliable sources. When you use a source, record it here.
Type of Author/ Title of Publisher/Barcode/URL Date
Source Organization Book/Article/ Published/
Website/Video Updated or
Visited by you

Step C. Record 5 questions about your issue.

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2.________________________________________________________
3.________________________________________________________
4.________________________________________________________
5.________________________________________________________

Step D. Create a short, 10-minute presentation using Google Slides, or other presentation
system. Present the information related to five questions that you have researched.
Here are a few tips for your presentation:
 ● Do not put too much information on your slides. Include only the main points and talk
about the rest of the information.
● Provide examples wherever you can.
● Presenting in English can be difficult. Practice out loud at home, until you know your
information really well. This will ensure that you do not trip over words or clusters of
words that are hard to pronounce.
● Do not read the information.
● While presenting, smile and move your head from left to right to cover everyone in class.
Pretend that you are having three- second mini conversations with everyone in class.

Step E. Submit a Works Cited list with your project. You may use Easybib.
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 Rubric for Inquiry Assignment
Categories Level 1(50-59%) Level 2 (60-69%) Level 3 (70- Level 4 (80-100%)
79%)
Reading 
- demonstrate Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates
knowledge of the limited knowledge of some knowledge of considerable thorough
content of the the content the content knowledge of the knowledge of the
inquiry Demonstrates Demonstrates content content
- demonstrate limited some Demonstrates Demonstrates
understanding of considerable thorough
understanding of the understanding of
the content of
content the content understanding of understanding of
inquiry
- use creative / Uses creativity and Uses creativity and the content the content
critical thinking critical skills to critical skills to Uses creativity Uses creativity and
processes generate ideas and generate ideas and and critical skills critical skills to
gather and organize gather and to generate ideas generate ideas and
information on given organize and gather and gather and organize
topic with limited information on organize information on
effectiveness. given topic with information on given topic with a
some effectiveness given topic with high degree of
considerable effectiveness
effectiveness
Socio-cultural/
Media
- identify the Identifies the Identifies the Identifies the Identifies the
environmental or environmental or environmental or environmental or environmental or
social issue, social issue, social issue, social issue, social issue,
respond to five responds to three responds to five responds to five
responds to two or
questions about the to five questions questions about questions about the
issue based on fewer questions about the issue the issue based issue based on
three sources about the issue based on three on three sources three sources with a
based on less than sources lot of details
three sources

Writing Expresses and Expresses and Expresses and Expresses and

- express and organizes ideas, and organizes ideas organizes ideas organizes ideas and
organize ideas in a uses appropriate and information and information information with a
conventions, with with some with considerable high degree of
clear and logical
limited effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness
order, and uses Information is Uses conventions, Uses Uses conventions,
appropriate organized with vocabulary and conventions, vocabulary and
conventions limited effectiveness terminology with vocabulary and terminology with a
- use transitions some effectiveness terminology with high degree of
words There is some considerable effectiveness
- use compound effectiveness in the effectiveness Information is
organization of Information is effectively
and complex
information clearly organized organized
sentences There are errors in Grammar, Each paragraph is
- use correct grammar, spelling spelling and logically connected
grammar tenses, and punctuation, punctuation are to the next.
prepositions and but the work is good. Grammar, spelling
spelling understandable. and punctuation are
excellent.
Writing
- apply knowledge Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates
and skills limited knowledge of some knowledge of considerable thorough
- use the correct note-taking skills note-taking skills knowledge of knowledge of note-
note-taking using the graphic using the graphic note-taking skills taking skills using
organizer organizer using the graphic the graphic
organizer organizer
Listening and
Speaking
(Presentation) Answers to 1-2 Answers to 3-4 Answers to 5 Answers to 5
- create a Google questions providing questions providing questions questions providing
presentation with examples examples providing many examples
the information examples
related to the five
questions
- provide examples