6th Grade
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Great Speeches Project
Project Guidelines
- You will be assigned a great speech in history (document with all speeches here). Using primary and secondary sources, you will develop questions and research:
- the person who delivered the speech
- the time period in which the speech was given
- You will be responsible for creating a minimum of three notecards, a written paragraph, a declamation presentation, and a Works Consulted
Notecards
- You must have a minimum of three notecards, answering the following questions:
- Who is this person? Where are they from? Why are they important?
- What was happening in their country at this time? Did this influence their actions/speech?
- Why is the speech significant? What does the speech say and how does it reflect what was happening at that time?
- Example notecard
Works Consulted
- Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
- Minimum of three total sources for this project
Websites (specific)
- Susan B. Anthony
- Benazir Bhutto
- Hillary Clinton
- Elizabeth I
- Indira Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- John F. Kennedy
- Abraham Lincoln
- Nelson Mandela
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Barack Obama
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Greta Thunberg
- Sojourner Truth
- Emma Watson
- Elie Wiesel
- Liu Xiaobo
Websites (general)
Hinduism Project
Works Consulted
- You must use a minimum of TWO sources
- If using a website not listed here, you must fill out a website evaluation form. Share it with Ms. Molina to get it approved before you begin using the website for research.
Images
- All image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
- Choose Google Images → Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
Books
- Available on the book cart; you can also use the library catalog to find books on your topic
Databases
- Britannica School (database → original content)
- Gale eBooks (database → book)
- World Book Student (database → original content)
- World Religions (database → original content)
Websites:
- British Museum (website → web page)
- Sanatan Society (website → web page)
Judaism Project
Works Consulted
- You must use a minimum of TWO sources
- Sources may only be from online or print encyclopedias and books (no websites)
Images
- Using the Photos for Class image website ensures the citation will be built into the image itself
- If not using the Photos for Class website, your image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
- When searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
Databases
- World Book Student (database → original content)
- Britannica Academic (database → original content)
- Salem Press Encyclopedia (database → original content)
Books
- On loan from MS Library in the Religion room; you can also use the library catalog to find books on your topic
6-1: Colony on Mars
Databases
Websites
- CNN: "NASA Mission Detects First Seismic Waves Traveling Through the Center of Mars"
- CNN: "This Is How We Should Build on Mars"
- Discover: "Astronauts Get Sick, Too. Here's the Tech That Could Grow Medicine on Mars"
- NASA: "Exercising in Space"
- NASA: "Fission Surface Power"
- NASA: "How to Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation on Mars"
- NASA: "The Human Body in Space"
- NASA" "Human Spaceflight Hazards"
- NASA: "Mars Exploration Rovers"
- NASA: "NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions"
- NASA: "Science Investigations"
- NASA Mars: "Electrical Power"
- NASA Science: Mars Communication
- NASA Science: Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment
- NASA Solar System Exploration: Mars
- The Planetary Society: "Your Guide to Water on Mars"
- Science the Wire: "What Do You Actually Do With Garbage on Mars?"
- Universe Magazine: "First Plant for Growing on Mars Selected"
- UNSW Sydney: Mars Settlement
6-2: Colony on the Moon
Databases
Websites
- BBC: "The Epic Quest to Build a Permanent Moon Base"
- "Headspace: How Space Travel Affects Astronaut Mental Health"
- NASA: Artemis Mission ("Why We Are Going to the Moon")
- NASA: "Gravity of the Moon's Crust"
- NASA: "Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Soil"
- NASA: "NASA Successfully Extracts Oxygen from Lunar Soil Stimulant"
- NASA: "How NASA Will Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation at the Moon"
- NASA: "Solar Power Investigation to Launch on Lunar Lander"
- Science: "Moon Safe for Long-Term Human Exploration"
6-3: Colony on the Ocean Floor
Databases
Websites
- "AI for Ocean Exploration: Is an AI Colony Possible in the Deep Sea?"
- Atlas Obscura: "What It's Like to Live on the Sea Floor"
- BBC: "Will We Ever Live in Underwater Cities?"
- EPA's Web Archive: "Geothermal Energy"
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "Ocean Floor Features"
- NOAA: Ocean Exploration
- Oceana: "Sea Floor Habitat Types"
- Ocean Info
- PBS
- Sciencing: "Plants That Live on the Ocean Floor"
- "Scientists Map Huge Undersea Fresh-Water Aquifer Off U.S. Northeast"
- Unveiled: "What if We Colonized the Ocean?"
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: "Fresh Water Below the Sea Floor?"
Images
- Using the Photos for Class image website ensures the citation will be built into the image itself
- If not using the Photos for Class website, your image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
- When searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
Databases
Websites
- Actors:
- General:
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Library of Congress (make sure to change drop-down menu to "photos, prints, drawings")
- Fabric:
- Food:
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Laurie Halse Anderson official website: Colonial Tea
- Maps:
- Brooklyn Historical Society: The Ratzer Map
- Laurie Halse Anderson official website: Timeline/map
- Library of Congress: New York maps from 1700-1799
- Make-up during the Georgian era (1714-1830):
Elements Project
Project Guidelines
- For this project, you will research an element on the periodic table
- Your assigned element will be between atomic numbers 1 to 20. For your element, you will create:
- A research summary with a works consulted page
- A creative poster to present to your classmates
Works Consulted
- Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
- Minimum of three total informational sources for this project
Databases
- Britannica School (database → original content)
- World Book Student (database → original content)
Websites (on NoodleTools: website → web page [need to hunt around on the page for information])
Celestial Bodies Project
Project Guidelines
- You will conduct weekly research and produce a Works Consulted of all your sources
- You will produce two major pieces of work:
- Presentation: three-minute talk accompanied with a detailed visual in the form of a poster or slides
- Physical model: detailed hand-crafted representation of the Sun, moon, planet or exoplanet
Works Consulted
- Keep track of your sources as soon as you find them
- Minimum of five total sources for this project
Images
- Using the Photos for Class image website ensures the citation will be built into the image itself
- If not using the Photos for Class website, your image URLs must be listed on the last slide of your presentation (titled "Image Citations")
- When searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
Databases
- Britannica School (database → original content)
- Gale in Context: Middle School
- Gale in Context: Science
- World Book Student (database → original content)
Holocaust Project
Works Consulted
- Must have at least THREE informational sources
- One must be from a database
Images
- Get all images from the Photos for Class website
Databases
- Britannica School (database → original content)
- Daily Life Through History: The Holocaust
- Gale in Context: Middle School
- Gale in Context: Biography
- Modern World History
- World Book Student (database → original content)
Websites
- Academy of Achievement (Elie Wisel)
- Anne Frank House Museum
- The Anti-Defamation League
- Auschwitz Memorial and Museum
- British Library: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
- Holocaust Center for Humanity
- The Holocaust Explained
- IWitness
- Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
- The National Archives
- The Nazi Concentration Camps
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Oskar Schindler
- USC Shoah Foundation
- Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
- Yale: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies