Suppose some anthropologists discover a group of people who have been isolated from the effects of cultural diffusion since the beginning of time. This group survives by hunting and gathering, just as most humans did before civilizations developed. The newly discovered hunter-gatherers, faced with the effects of climate change and the movement of "civilized" groups into their hunting grounds, have decided they need to change the way they live. They need civilization.
How can the group now known as HG21 (Hunter-Gatherers in the 21st century) develop a civilization that will help them survive into the next century? They will need help from people like you who know how the world's civilizations began but who also understand what it means to live in the 21st century, with its unique demands and challenges.
What the people of HG21 need is a guidebook. For this project, you will create a guidebook for building a civilization, using what you learned from the lessons in this module. Your guidebook should include clear steps and stages that HG21 should follow in order to build their civilization. They will need help and resources, of course, which you should list somewhere in your guidebook. All resources will be provided by generous private and public donors who can't wait to see how HG21 will build in a few decades what it took the rest of us thousands of years to develop.
The Activity sheet below will help you get your project started. It includes several suggestions for how to organize your guidebook. Be sure to choose just one of these approaches--or to design your own approach. Remember to keep it simple--everything in your guidebook will be communicated to the people of HG21 in their own language, but you don't want to discourage them with two much information before they even start their great adventure.
This project should take you a couple of hours to complete, so don't expect to finish it today. In fact, if you are near the end of the time period you have set aside for World History, you may need to wait until tomorrow to start the project.
When you are ready to start working on your project, click the Activity button. To see how your work on this assignment will be graded, see the rubric below.
| Below Average | Satisfactory | Above Average | Excellent | |
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| Project Requirements | Project requirements were completely missing, or the work submission was in no way connected to aims of assignment. | Very few required elements and topics appear in the project. | Most required elements and topics appear in the project. | All required elements and topics appear in the project; Processes are described in a way that fits the purpose of the project. |
| Accuracy of Information | Information was completely inaccurate, or the work submission was in no way connected to aims of assignment. | Some of the information is inaccurate or incomplete. | Most of the information is accurate, but some information is incomplete. | All of the information in the project is accurate. |
| Explanation of Differences | The work makes no attempt to explain, or the work submission was in no way connected to aims of assignment. | Project includes few attempts to explain the differences between past and present production processes. | Some of the processes or differences are explained in a way that is hard to follow. | Descriptions of differences in production processes are easy to follow. |
| Presentation of Information | Presentation includes no visual aids. | Introduction includes very few images or details, or the ones provided do not support the overall message | Some of the images or scenes do not support overall message or are not appropriate for the audience or the purpose of the project. | Project includes images or details that make message clear and interesting. |
| Citations | No citations or sources were cited or listed. | Few outside sources are cited and credited, and/or there are major errors in accepted format, such as MLA or APA | Most outside sources are cited and credited, and/or there are minor errors in accepted format, such as MLA or APA. | All outside sources are cited and credited correctly according to an accepted format, such as MLA or APA. |
