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Year 6 students from Dubai International Academy will be using this Wikispace to create, collaborate and store information about an explorer from the Age of Exploration.

Project Files
Please find the files relating to this project below;

Websites for Copyright-free Images
[|Pics4learning]

[|Classroom Clipart]

[|Getty Images] Username: diadubai Password: images

Useful Site - Suggested by Ms Louise
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001692/

Project Information
You will be working with a small group of students to research an explorer from the Age of Discovery (c.1300 – 1620).

After you have completed your research you will then present your ideas and knowledge in a format negotiated with your teacher. (Some ideas could be: a report, a newspaper article, a video interview, poem etc) This will be an individual task.

Your research skills and working behaviour are the most important part of this task and are what you will be assessed on. The skills we are looking at are:


 * Research Skills** – forming questions, note-taking
 * Self-Management Skills** – time-management, organization
 * Communication Skills** – speaking, listening, reading and writing
 * Thinking Skills** – synthesis (bringing ideas together from many sources – internet, books, discussion)
 * Social Skills** – cooperation and group decision- making

You will be citing all of your information. Don't forget plagiarism is a crime.