Country Research Project Template for Student Reports

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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

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Research a country using multiple sources
Organize findings about geography, history, government and culture
Compare countries and revise a written report

Teaching tips

Teach or review basic research skills before assigning the packet, using the included 'Finding Your Information' page as a starting point.
Use the packet as a rough-draft template if students will type their final report rather than write directly in the booklet.
For a country whose leaders are not elected, adapt the government prompt to ask how leaders are chosen. Date current-event and leadership information when students research it.

Skills covered

Country research — students gather and organize factual information about a country's geography, climate, government, economy, and culture from multiple source types.
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.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

The citation examples in the 'Resources' section are labeled 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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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

W.5.7

Core concepts

Country report
Research process
Citations/bibliography
Compare and contrast

Topics

Country research Geography report Source notes Editing checklist Rubric

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