The rest of the class reviews and critiques it. Authors make final revisions before all 6 are linked together. The final geoportrait may be too large to store on a single floppy, but should be stored on a hard drive, or CD ROM disk. 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.