GEOG 101 Project: Designing a Trip Exploring People and the Land Overview Design a plan for a trip to explore another part of the world. Create a PowerPoint presentation including text and images to show your plan according to the guidelines below. The trip has four key stops that you will travel to, like “connect the dots.” Most of the work of the project is 1) first doing the research to come up with the stops 2) then going further into researching information about the stops. This is a research project and takes time—there is no way around it. However, it can be fun as you explore around for stops and then dig deeper to get more information, especially if you start early. It is your trip; you can design it any way you want as long as it fits in the guidelines below. What’s due May 30, 2014 (final week of class): Design a PowerPoint presentation of exactly seventeen slides to show your trip plan as follows: 1. Title slide (one slide) 2. Brief explanation of your personal reasons for choosing these places (one slide, min one paragraph) 3. Trip map showing four stops clearly labeled (one slide) 4. For each of the four stops: three slides each which address the questions below -Each slide with 20-40 well-chosen words maximum per slide as well as images and maps (3 slides per stop, 12 slides total for all stops) 5. When to go and considerations (one slide) 6. Bibliography with at least 10 sources (one slide) Basic trip guidelines Identify four stops for your trip Plan your trip to include the following four stops in any order—you can shuffle them around in any order you want: 1. Capital - a national capital city 2. Border issue - a place on a border where a major transnational issue exists (see examples below) 3. Culture region - a local (not national) culture region where the culture is active today (not just in the past) 4. Landform – a landform where major Human-Environment Interaction is going on today  See information below for more guidelines about choosing stops. Any reason is fine for choosing a stop. “I knew nothing about it and wanted to know more” is a good reason. Additional rules for the trip 1. Trip cannot be to the US or Canada or anywhere you have lived before. Pick someplace new. 2. Trip can cover anywhere from 1 up to 3 countries which are adjacent (next to each other). No more than three countries. 3. Island countries are OK but cannot be more than 500 miles from the next country on the trip. 4. For all maps, get your base map from the Internet – do not attempt to draw base maps. You can draw on the map using PowerPoint drawing tools to put arrows, dots, and lines on your map or by hand. Note about plagiarism and overuse of quotes Plagiarized projects will receive a grade of zero and be returned immediately with one opportunity to revise the project and return with no plagiarism. At the end of a semester, this is not fun. See APUS Plagiarism policy. The project will be run through Turnitin.com Also, your proj.

1. GEOG 101
Project: Designing a Trip Exploring People and the Land
Overview
Design a plan for a trip to explore another part of the world.
Create a PowerPoint presentation including text and images to
show your plan according to the guidelines below. The trip has
four key stops that you will travel to, like “connect the dots.”
Most of the work of the project is
1) first doing the research to come up with the stops
2) then going further into researching information about the
stops.
This is a research project and takes time—there is no way
around it. However, it can be fun as you explore around for
stops and then dig deeper to get more information, especially if
you start early. It is your trip; you can design it any way you
want as long as it fits in the guidelines below.
What’s due May 30, 2014 (final week of class):
Design a PowerPoint presentation of exactly seventeen slides to
show your trip plan as follows:
1. Title slide (one slide)
2. Brief explanation of your personal reasons for choosing these
places (one slide, min one paragraph)
3. Trip map showing four stops clearly labeled (one slide)
4. For each of the four stops: three slides each which address
the questions below
-Each slide with 20-40 well-chosen words maximum per slide as
well as images and maps (3 slides per stop, 12 slides total for
all stops)

2. 5. When to go and considerations (one slide)
6. Bibliography with at least 10 sources (one slide)
Basic trip guidelines
Identify four stops for your trip
Plan your trip to include the following four stops in any order—
you can shuffle them around in any order you want:
1. Capital - a national capital city
2. Border issue - a place on a border where a major
transnational issue exists (see examples below)
3. Culture region - a local (not national) culture region where
the culture is active today (not just in the past)
4. Landform – a landform where major Human-Environment
Interaction is going on today
See information below for more guidelines about choosing
stops.
Any reason is fine for choosing a stop. “I knew nothing about it
and wanted to know more” is a good reason.
Additional rules for the trip
1. Trip cannot be to the US or Canada or anywhere you have
lived before. Pick someplace new.
2. Trip can cover anywhere from 1 up to 3 countries which are
adjacent (next to each other). No more than three countries.
3. Island countries are OK but cannot be more than 500 miles
from the next country on the trip.
4. For all maps, get your base map from the Internet – do not
attempt to draw base maps. You can draw on the map using
PowerPoint drawing tools to put arrows, dots, and lines on your

3. map or by hand.
Note about plagiarism and overuse of quotes
Plagiarized projects will receive a grade of zero and be returned
immediately with one opportunity to revise the project and
return with no plagiarism. At the end of a semester, this is not
fun. See APUS Plagiarism policy. The project will be run
through Turnitin.com
Also, your project should not be a long string of pasted-in
quotes—even if you cited them. That’s like turning in a
Shakespeare sonnet with a citation when you are asked to write
your own sonnet and saying “but I cited it.” The central
narrative should be yours. Anything that is open, public
knowledge does not need to be quoted or referenced.
Quotes are great when used selectively and correctly: to add
spice, give an author’s special perspective, or as a basis to then
discuss the language in the quote itself, as in literature classes.
But quotes too often become just a shortcut for figuring out
what to say yourself. This is your paper, your trip.
See UNC Writing Center for when to use quotes:
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/quotations/
Trip map guidelinesExample
-Keep it simple and clear.
-Include a legend that identifies the stops.
This map acts as a sort of index for the slides about stops that
follow.
Where to find a base map (underlying map that you draw on):
-Find a base map on the internet. Do not attempt to draw the
base map. One good source is the “Reference Maps” found in
the UTexas Map Library http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
But a Google image search also produces lots of additional

4. maps.
-Use copy or “PrintScreen” (if a PDF) key to copy the image.
-Use “Paste” in PowerPoint to then paste the image into
PowerPoint.
-Use the “crop” tool to reduce the map to just the area you need
for your trip.
Drawing map features:
-You can easily make the dots shown in the map by using
PowerPoint:
Insert>Shapes and choose the circle or any other shape you
want to label the stops. Then you can click inside it to “edit
text” which allows you to enter numbers.
Optionally, you can print the map and draw on it by hand then
scan it, but PowerPoint is a lot simpler.
Choosing stops: guidelines and examples*These stops can be
arranged in any order on your trip*Capital – Any national
capital is fine. For this stop you will research the geography of
the city so make sure there is plenty of information available
about the city.
Local culture regionExamples of local culture regions: Tribal
areas (as in many African countries), ethnic neighborhoods in
cities, native homelands and reservations, autonomous ethnic
regions (as in China and Russia), indigenous language regions,
rural folk cultures, etc.
-“Culture” includes just about anything related to how humans
live: religion, music, food, sports, clothing, dance, arts,

5. language, etc.
-Must be local culture not national culture. Cannot be “French
culture” or “Chinese culture”, these are generic and not local;
Sichuan or Cantonese culture within China is local
-The local culture must be in action today, not just historical
-Must name the culture and give a basic description of where it
is found
Border with transnational issue
Examples: disputed borders, illegal border migrations, refugee
migrations, militarized borders, animal smuggling/drug
trade/human trafficking, terrorism, wartime borders,
cooperative border security, etc.
-The place should be on or close to a border and affected by a
transnational issue
-A “transnational issue” is one that involves multiple countries
i.e. crosses borders and often requires cooperation of several
countries.
Landform with major Human-Environment Interaction today-
Choose one specfic landform that has very strong Human-
Environment Interaction(s) going on today.
-Landform is a general word for any natural feature of earth’s
surface. Landforms are not built by people, they are created by
nature; however, then can be altered by people.
-Human –Environment Interaction means how humans adapt to,
modify, and depend on the environment.
Examples of types of landforms you can choose from:
Rivers, waterfalls, deltas
Lakes, valleys, canyons
Plains, plateaus, mountains
Hills

6. Tectonic plate boundary
Ocean trench, mid-ocean ridge
Wetlands, swamp, marsh
volcanoes (tectonic or hotspots)
geysers, hot springs, calderas
thermal baths
Desert dunes, erg (sand sea)
reg, hamada, oasisGlacier, ice shelf , fjord,
U-shaped valleys, Cirque, tarn
Kettle, kettle lake
basin and range, dome, fault
Karst caves, caverns, sinkhole
Coral reef, Beaches, sea caves, arches, cliffs, bay, sound,
barrier islands
Strait, isthmus
Creating slides: What to cover on the slides*Include three slides
for each stop*
-Each slide should include picture(s).
-The stops slides should have 20-40 words. Choose the best
words and phrases.
-There is no need to overload slides. Stick to main points.
Capital city – three slides
-Give a quick overview of the city: population, elevation,
overall climate (can use a climate graph image)
-Describe the site of the city – the physical setting in which it is
built (see textbook definition and examples of site) i.e. at the
foot of mountains, at a river junction, on a coastline, etc.

7. -What are some major economic activities that go on in the
city?
-Show images of some of the city’s key sights ex. Buildings,
parks, streets, etc.
-What makes this city unique?
-Include a map of the city from an image from the internet or a
book
Culture region – three slides
Use at least three slides with pictures and text to show:
-Where is the culture region? Can include a map image from the
internet
-What are some of the key traits and practices of the culture?
-What makes this culture unique?
Border issue – three slides
Use three slides with pictures and text to show:
-Where is the border issue? Can include a map image from the
internet
-What exactly is the border issue? What is at stake in the issue?
-What countries are involved in this transnational issue?
-What are some key people/groups involved?
-What is the current status of the issue? What is being done
about it?
Landform – three slides
-Show a picture(s) of the landform
-What exactly is the landform?
-What are the landform’s key physical characteristics? (depends
on what type of landform it is)
-What major Human-Environment Interaction(s) (HEI) is going
on with the landform today?
In other words, how are people adapting to, modifying, and
depending on it? Be as specific as possible.
-Who are the people/companies/governments involved in this
HEI?

8. -If available, show image(s) of the HEI in action
When to go and considerations – one slide
Include any information you have gathered about:
-Based on what you have found, what would be a good time of
year to do this trip?
-What additional comments or considerations do you have in
planning this trip?
Examples: food, clothes, health hazards, etc.
-What further research would you like to do before leaving for
the trip?
Bibliography – at least 10 sources. Use any standard academic
format – one slide
-See
exampleshttp://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla
.htm
Suggested sources
Browse around a library and/or a big bookstore like Barnes &
Noble. There are dozens of books there about all regions of the
world.
Travel guides are a good place to start and have a lot of
advantages:
-Designed for travelers (like you) planning to move from place
to place
-Lots of maps
-Present smaller and lesser-known places that are off the beaten
path

9. -Give you specific transportation information
Several publishers have big chunks of travel books online as
well ex. Lonely Planet.
Travel guide examples: Rough Guide, Lonely Planet, the Blue
Guides, Moon Travel Guides
-These are published for countries and also for regions like
Central America, East Asia, etc.
Individual tour operator websites (you can email them and they
will respond)
Books that profile individual countries, cultures, industries,
activities
Wikitravel.com and other travel websites
Textbook chapters and slides for explaining earth processes
Travel and geographic magazines ex. National Geographic,
Earth, Afar
University or research websites about projects overseas and the
professors/students that are doing them
Environmental groups websites like the Nature Conservancy or
Greenpeace for information about Human-Environment
Interactions with specific landforms they may be involved with
World Wildlife Federation (for endangered species and their
habitats)
Biographies or profiles of field specialists i.e. geographers,
environmentalists, ecologists, geologists, earth scientists,
business/political/community leaders, etc.