Country Research Project Template for Student Reports
- Grades
- Grade 5
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Geography, Social Studies
- Topic
- Social Studies Research, Research Project
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive, 30-page resource to help your students produce a research report on a country or countries. It makes report writing easy! This report template can be used for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, and assess your students’ country report.
This template can be used as the actual formal report to be turned in, or you can utilize this template as a study guide or rough draft prior to your students typing the report. This packet contains the following:
Report Template includes:
1. Introduce your country and its location
2. Country Sketch
3. Geographical Features
4. Climate
5. Environment
6. Language and Educational System
7. History
8. Customs, Religions, Beliefs
9. Government
10. Economy and Resources
11. Interesting Facts
12. Current Events
13. Similarities and Differences between the country you studied and the country of your origin
14. A Day in This Country
15. Flag Illustration
16. Extra Line Paper
17. Additional Information Page
18. Finding your information page
19. Resources
20. Bibliography
21. Student Checklist
22. Rubric
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Learning objectives
Students research and report factual information about a chosen country's geography, climate, history, government, economy, and culture.
Students locate information using library, encyclopedia, magazine, and internet sources and record proper citations for each.
Students compare and contrast the country studied with their home country.
Students revise their own writing using an editing and revising checklist before submitting a final report.
Teaching tips
Teach or review basic research skills before assigning the packet, using the included 'Finding Your Information' page as a starting point.
Let students choose their own note-taking method (note cards, folders of printouts, etc.) rather than requiring one format.
Use the packet as a rough-draft template if students will type their final report rather than write directly in the booklet.
Copy the included blank lined page whenever a student needs more room to complete a section.
Skills covered
Country research — students gather and organize factual information about a country's geography, climate, government, economy, and culture from multiple source types.
Source citation — students record book, encyclopedia, magazine, and internet sources using the example citation formats provided.
Compare-and-contrast writing — students describe similarities and differences between their studied country and their home country.
Self-editing — students apply a revising checklist covering audience, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation before finalizing their report.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
The citation examples in the 'Resources' section are labelled fictional — how are they meant to be used?
They are sample formats only (a made-up book, encyclopedia, magazine, and website citation) meant to show students what information to record for each source type, not sources to actually cite in their report.
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