World Cup 2002 Project
Schedule | Guidelines | Example
Links | Grading | Student Pages

Students in all classes will complete an economic and historical examination of one of the 32 countries in the 2002 World Cup, the world's most popular sporting event.  This page serves as a guide for that project, which is to be completed by June 4 for ALL CLASSES.  In order to complete this project, you will spend the rest of the year in class on it, and assign yourself homework.  All information about your project should be kept in your notebook.

Try the World Cup Challenge with ESPN and Soccernet.com and win prizes.  Sign on as a new member (select Teen).  After registration, click "Create your entry" and join the group HHS Soccer, and use jenkins as the password.  We have our own message board, and we can see who in all the classes can pick the best schedule.  Other Hammond teachers may join as well.  Remember, all rules of Hammond High apply to activities online within this project.

Take a look at the cool stadiums the games will be played in.  Also, the TV schedule for all games is available online.

Schedule

Guidelines
The following requirements should be met for the project.
The project must

• show outstanding individual effort on the part of the student

• accurately portray one of the 32 countries in the World Cup, focusing on its history and economic conditions

• be a webpage or series of webpages, with

  • at least three images, with links to their original internet location (or a referenced source if scanned in)

  • at least four links to webpages used, including an online news source for that country

  • the start page named index.htm

• include a section for history, including date of independence and previous owner if colonized, snapshot of a previous event in its history 

• include a section for geography, including the capital, three other cities, major landforms (bodies of water, mountains, plateaus, etc.), and climate 

• include a section for economy, including GDP per capita, labor force (agriculture, industry, service in percentages), inflation rate, currency and exchange rate with $US, major export products, trading partners (import and export), external debt

• include a section for the people of the country, including population, ethnic groups, languages, religions, and literacy rates

• include a current event for a news article involving that country's economics, politics, or technology (please see me if you can not find an article at the newspaper site listed below or from other sources)

• include a Star Player profile and prediction for their success in the World Cup

• include the Finals group, dates, and opponents for your team in the first round of the finals

Advanced projects will include the above, and at least one chart or graph, a hand-drawn or computer generated image, additional information within the categories above

The project must be turned in to me no later than June 4.  I will accept floppy disks, Zip disks, or CD-Rs for the projects.  You may also save the files to a computer in my room by the due date.  I will return all disks to owners on the day of the exam.  Webpage files must be saved as .htm or .html files.  You may use Netscape Communicator, Word, or Frontpage to make your webpages.  We will use Netscape Communicator during class.

Example
As an example, I have created a webpage for the country of Ghana, which did not make it into the finals from the Confederation of African Football (CAF).  In the preliminaries for the World Cup, Ghana failed to advance to the finals of the CAF, going 3-2-3 (Win, Ties, Losses) in Group B of five groups.  Click here for the Ghana report. 

Links
Use these links when studying your country.  Be sure to reference any website you used for your project.  Link the title of the page from your own page so other internet users can find out more information.

• FIFA World Cup 2002 Homepage

• CIA World Factbook 2001

• Google (search engine)

• Internet Public Library Newspapers around the World

• DK World Desk Reference

Grading
Grading for this project will be based on completion of the guidelines above, with the sections broken down as follows

Student Pages
Once completed, students' webpages will be posted here.