Final Part to Country Reports

Post to your blog for each country - create a post.

Country 1 - ________________________________

Summarize your country by including the following information:

Paragraph 1

    - Where is it located?

    - What type of government does it have?

    - What its happy index ranking and score:?

    -  Does it export more than it imports. ?

    - What kind of goods does your country export?/ imports?

Paragraph 2 

    - Do you think your countries are Developed (Industrialized) or Less Developed Country (More Agriculture, low literacy, not many paved roads etc.)

Paragraph 3 

  - Would this be an interesting country to live in? Would it be country you would want to visit ? Why or Why not?

Visuals

    - Include a map on your blog and  a couple of images showing your country.

Economics - completing country report

Tuesday , April 12 - Complete Your Country data collection.

1st - See what your countries - Happy Index World Ranking is . Record the following :  ranking _______, score_______ .  Write the results next to your country on the map page.
Happy Score - website link


 2nd. Use the following resources
 Culture Grams
Link to CIA Factbook  

3rd -  Once your data is collected.   
  - Create a a blog post for each of your countries. Summarize your country by including the following information:
Paragraph 1
    - Where is it located?
    - What type of government does it have?
    - What its happy index ranking and score:?
    -  Does it export more than it imports. ?
    - What kind of goods does your country export?/ imports?
Paragraph 2 
    - Do you think your countries are Developed (Industrialized) or Less Developed Country (More Agriculture, low literacy, not many paved roads etc.)
    - Would this be an interesting country to live in? Would it be country you would want to visit ? Why or Why not?

Visuals
    - Include a map on your blog and  a couple of images showing your country.
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Finally   -  Share your blog link on Class Economics site. 

Tuesday April 5

Assignments today
Country Data Report 1 (Culture Grams) (started last week)
Country - Import and Export (CIA Factbook ) 

 Resources
 Culture Grams
Link to CIA Factbook  

Guide to finding info on CIA factbook
How to get CIA factbook information

Reminder Past Due Assignments.
2 Paragraph Blogger
2 Paragraph - Against the Establishment

April 1 Collecting Country Economic Data

Today's Assignment is to collect economic data on two countries of your choosing. They must be from two different continents and be different from other class members.

The Learning Target for this assignment is 

1.  Understand this meant by developed and less developed nations.

2.    Identify the tools / data used to measure levels of development

3.  Describe the characteristics of developed nations and less developed countries

The resource to use is - Culture Grams.
Click on the "Country Economic Data Template"  listed above.  Copy and Paste into MS Word. or use the data template hand out to complete the data collection. Once you have completed your data collection hand a printed copy.   

Reminder:  Blogging / Internet 2 paragraphs assignment due. click here if you need the notes, If you need the reading see Mr. Gates.

Marking Period ends next Friday - April 8th. 

Important Past due Assignments
- 2 paragraph argument essay - "The End of the  Establishment" click here if you need the notes, If you need the reading see Mr. Gates.
- Setting up your economics blog.
- Castle Learning Quizzes

March 21

Today Your Goals are  take 2 shorts  economic quizzes and Select two countries post them to your blog with a map, and  listing their imports and exports.

1)  take the two online castle quizzes.  - Dated March 21. THEN

The a Country - Economic Report  -  You will choose two countries .
1) You can not choose the United States
2)  Your two countries must be from different continents.
3)  They must be different from any other student in class. So once you have chosen your countries, post your choices in the comments section so no one else can claim them.


4) To start go to the CIA Factbook and review the map and click on the continent your are interested in, choose your countries. Write them down on the paper.  Then click on your countries

5)  Open your Ecoomics blog in a new tab or window.  List your two country names, and their capital city.  Create a link to the map , or just use the image link to embed the picture in your blog.

5) Wikipedia - search for your country - select some images to illustrate your country here. See if the import and export information is the same.

6)  Culture Grams.

list your sources on your blog and what you find. The three sources.


Economics textbook online

March 14 Economics

Today

1)  Tomorrow there are important Presidential Primaries in several states, with Florida and Ohio being most important. Look to the right -> and answer the poll questions - if you were in these parties - who would you vote for? 

 2) Economics Quizzes
 go to castle learning and there will be 3 quizzes to take - Take the ones that have the date March 14. They are multiple choice and are approximately 10-15 questions on each. They are also timed. use your time wisely.

  Click here to take the quizzes  -  Remember take the ones dated March 14 - www.castlelearning.com

3) Then click on the above navigation - block 3 economics and add your website.

4) Summarize the following - What is the purpose of a Political Party primaries? Who is the most interesting candidate so far? Who would you vote for ? and which candidate do you definitely not want to see win. Post this in your economics blog.

--- upcoming event - St. Baldericks at Fowler - help out / donate see link

March 8th Current Events and Economics

DIN

Establishment vs. Insurgents

Trump Ad   (Satire)   Bernie Sanders (Satire)

Powerpoint - Notes Chapter 2

Monday March 7 Assignment

Complete DIN

Then take Castle Learning Economics Quiz.

Then do the backside of the paper.  Record your answers on your blog,

Give the  Post Title:  Presidential Economic Priorities

 Then copy the following into your blog post.

       If you were President - what do you think, we should spend on the following.  What percentage of your country’s resources would you spend on the following?

_______ National Defense

_______ Roads, Mass Transit, Airplanes

_______ Health Care

_______ Education

_______ Social Security (for retired people)

_______ Welfare (people unable to work, or unemployed)

_______ Consumer Goods

_______ Other:____________________________________________

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100 -      remember your numbers / percentages should add up to 100.

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What were your priorities (most important)? Explain why? What received the least amount of resources? Why? 

Then create another blog post - called Commodities Pricing  

4. - Natural Resources - Commodities.

Now go to the following links:
1)   http://money.cnn.com/data/commodities/ or 2)  http://www.cnbc.com/commodities/

Review the charts, then list one item from each category that has gone up in price and one item that has gone down in price.

Natural Resources	One that has increased	One that has decreased
Energy
Metal
Agriculture
Livestock

Summarize -  Does anything surprise you ?  If you were a car maker - which commodities which you most be interested in? 

If you were a Corn Farmer which would you be interested in? What if you were Cattle Rancher ?

 

Feb 22 - Assignments

DIN : take out a sheet paper , put your name , date, economics class… Then answer the following questions:

 1) When do you think the internet began?
 2) What is the difference between “website” and a blog? How are they similar and or different
. 3) How has the internet impacted Newspapers? (pos/neg)
4) How has the internet impacted shopping malls/stores (pos/neg)

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 Then watch  select video 7 from the playlist  and answer the questions below the video







On your piece of paper   - summarize the video include  state 3 to 5 main points  in the video

Welcome Back materials

Welcome back !

Today - review key terms

Complete Powerpoint -Watch this video and answer the following questions on your blog.

What is the subject of this Video? 


Create a new post on your economics blog - summarize the video include  state 3 to 5 main points  in the video


Go to this link for the power point.

If you don't have the handout that goes with video - click here

If you need to set up your Economics blog - this powerpoint will walk walk you through the steps. 

Have you taken the S.L.O.  ( Performance Exam)

Class Assignments

Feb 12 -  Friday 
take this survey first  -  Click here - My Student Survey

then we are going to  maek
Make an Economics Blog
Create links to your Government Blog and www.ssgates.com
Create Research Paper Page and Bibliography Page -

and if time, or else for homework, create another blog - a geography blog.




Feb  10  - Wednesday

1) Performance Exam
2) Reading from textbook on Possibilities Graph
3) Factors of Production in a Water Bottle

1st Economics Post

sample