Name ____________________

Period ____
Climate regions power point

INSTRUCTION: Using the internet and your book create a power point to present to the
class that covers one of the Climate zones listed below.

This assignment is DUE ______________________

My topic is __________________________
My partner is _____________________________________________

The tropics Temperate zone The polar zone

Tropical Rain forest Temperate forest tundra
Tropical Savanna temperate grassland taiga
Tropical Deserts chaparrals arctic
Temperate deserts

Your power point should include things such as:

o A general overview of what type of climate that area typically
experiences; such as temperature, rainfall, seasons, length of seasons, etc.
o Animals commonly found in that area
o Plants commonly found in that area
o What helps the plants and animals be adapted to survive that particular
environment
o A map of where your particular climate areas are located
o Microclimates in your area
 Powerpoint Appearance and Content : Climate regions

CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Content - All content throughout the Most of the content is The content is Content is typically
Accuracy presentation is accurate. There accurate but there is generally accurate, confusing or contains
are no factual errors. one piece of but one piece of more than one factual
information that information is clearly error.
might be inaccurate. flawed or inaccurate.

Requirements All requirements are met or one of the 2-3 requirements not more than 3
exceeded: A general overview of requirements not met met requirements not met
what type of climate that area
typically experiences, Animals
commonly found in that area,
Plants commonly found in that
area, What helps the plants and
animals be adapted to survive
that particular environment, A
map of where your particular
climate areas are located,
Microclimates in your area,
citation page
Spelling and Presentation has no misspellings Presentation has 1-2 Presentation has 1-2 Presentation has
Grammar or grammatical errors. misspellings, but no grammatical errors more than 2
grammatical errors. but no misspellings. grammatical and/or
spelling errors.

Formatting There is a good mix of graphics Presentation is presentation is presentation is

including: at least 2 sounds, 2 missing one or two missing 3-4 elements missing 4+ elements
animations, 6 pictures, and text elements

time use Class time is used effectively, all Class time is mostly Class time is Class time is not used
group members work together used effectively, all somewhat used effectively, some
and share equally in the work, group members work effectively, some group members work
presentation is ready to go and together and share group members work together, presentation
saved to teacher jump drive equally in the work, together, is not ready to go and
before presentation time presentation is presentation is not saved to teacher jump
almost ready to go ready to go and drive before
and saved to teacher saved to teacher presentation time
jump drive at jump drive before
presentation time presentation time