Requirements

**Group work research task to build a Wiki** **The aim of this portion of the project is to produce an informative and interesting collection of information about trees and forests around us. You will be using the skills of collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity as you build your knowledge on this topic.** Each group of four pupils is required to research a specific topic and create a page on our class Wiki – Trees4Africa.

The format of your group’s page is completely up to your group to decide and implement. You are free to do anything that conveys the information in a clear and engaging manner.

Each research topic has been structured to tell only a part of the whole story about trees and forests, so once the Wiki is complete, there will be a full story that each and every person will have contributed to. The Wiki will be accessible to everyone to read and enjoy once we have finished it!

For each research topic, there are a set of guiding questions to help your group cover the topic adequately. Please do not simply answer the questions and record these answers on your Wiki page. We expect you to create an informative space but there are many ways in which to do that. Look at other examples of how information is presented in other websites and create something that will work for your information. You are not limited only to writing paragraphs, although you will almost certainly have some writing on your page. You can think of any number of other creative ways to represent information. Here are some ideas:
 * Pictures
 * Music
 * Videos
 * Poems
 * Short stories
 * Cartoons
 * Your own illustrations
 * Tables and graphs
 * Word maps or clouds

After each group’s Wiki page is complete, there will be a time to read each other’s pages and learn from each other. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ultimately, we will use this information to create a variety of presentations to be used to encourage communities to grow trees and conserve trees and forests in general.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Instructions** > <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> it(\\intrasaints)\Science\Form I Trees4Africa Project. I have also created a Resources page in the Navigation bar on the left of this page. You will find all the resources there also. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Trees4Africa Blog** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Due Date**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Read through all seven of the topics to get an idea of the whole story that will be told on the Wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Individually read about your topic and start collecting helpful research, pictures and such.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Get together in your group of 4 and start to work together to answer the questions.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Do not over-answer in your own section thereby doing the work of other groups. You will be penalised for not sticking to your topic.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Once you have a good grasp of the information, start working on the presentation of your Wiki. You can change your page as much as you like in this phase as only your group has access to it in this stage of the project.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">All writing must be in your own words. You may not copy directly from any source and pass it off as your own work or ideas. All sources of information must be listed in your bibliography (see below).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">If you want to quote a particular sentence, or include a picture, poem, video, statement or such that is not your own, you may do so as long as you use quotation marks for quotes and in **all** cases, that you acknowledge the source at the point of using it in on your Wiki page as well as in the bibliography list as explained in the Bibliography booklet (see below).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">There is a document available containing some useful website references relevant to this project. This document can be found on the school server:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Evaluate every source that you use. Not all information on the internet can be trusted, but the internet is also one of the best places to find information and it is often very recent and relevant information.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Bibliography:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">As you research your topics, ensure that you make note of all your reference material as you are required to create a bibliography for your page of information. You must refer to the School Bibliography guide. You should have been given a copy of this, but it can also be accessed on the school website under Resource Centre [|www.stmarysschool.co.za/] Senior School/Resource Centre/Learning Resources/How to compile a Bibliography.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Place the bibliography at the very bottom of your Wiki page.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">If you cannot find every required piece of information for a particular reference, give as much information as you can.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You do not have to do citing in your text.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Each person is required to post at least one individual blog entry on the Wiki by the end of Term I.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">There are marks allocated for this requirement. Please see the Rubric for details.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Your completed Wiki page is due on Monday, 12 March 2012 at 08:00am.