Assessment Teacher and students assess group work processes. Teacher assesses written reports. Students assess geosketches and final geoportrait. Materials resources on USSR and the new nations that formed after its dissolution computers and a computerized atlas art supplies Procedures 1. Students work in cooperative groups to generate a map of the region, including placement of puzzle pieces of each nation in its proper location.
Students label each nation.
Students discuss the breakup of USSR, the resulting new nations, and the regions into which these nations can be grouped. Each pair of students examines one new country in depth and creates a large, poster-sized map of the nation. Students are asked to accurately label a map of all new nations in the former USSR and categorize them into the appropriate regions. Teacher observes each student in turn work through the computerized atlas program to answer a new question about the former Soviet Republics, noting steps independently achieved as well as those for which the student needs prompting. Student posters are assessed, noting in particular the cartography and artistry.