Friday, January 21, 2011

IMPORTANT - ALL POSTS ARE DUE BY JAN 24th!

POST 25 - plus extra credit for people who were unable to do other extra credit

POST – Find one group of Americans that would love inflation and explain why.
OR
Find the Gini Indexes for the nations of the world and react to what that says about America.
OR
Find 3 groups in America fighting poverty and indentify the best place for Northern students to donate money to fight poverty.
EXTRA CREDIT IF YOU DO TWO OF THE THREE!

POST 24

POST – Create 4 scenarios for your life  to describe the 4 types of unemployment. (future you)

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

POST 23

Chapter 11 is about the Economic Challenges - aka the bad news of any economy:

unemployment
inflation
poverty.


Please make a western style wanted dead or alive post for one of these criminals.
Include the crimes or ways they impact an economy on the poster.

POST 22

Please take the 3 quizzes located here.  Make a list of 15 new facts you learned (5 from each quiz).

Thursday, January 13, 2011

POST 21.

VOCAB

Use the terms on: Page 235 Q1; Page 240 Q1 and Page 246 Q1 and make a terms list for this unit.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Getting on the right track.

What a better day than 1/11/11 to restart?

These are the two posts you HAVE to complete today!  The others? = HW!

POST 19 = Design (ppt or other visual) a GDP thermometer/tape measure or some other measuring device that explains and defines the 4 parts of the GDP and the 3 rules for calculating it.  The device should include a warning label that identifies the weaknesses of GDP.

POST 20 = Find all the questions on the quiz that you got wrong from Chapter 10 Section 1.
Simply do this.

Q#; your answer; the correct answer and 1 sentence explination (page #).


I want to be able to discuss this next time we have class!  Next class is in 107!

Sunday, January 02, 2011

Post 18 TWITTER MAN! THIS IS A STAND ALONE GRADED POST!







Recently, I have been following a bunch of great educators on Twitter.  One of which is named @cybraryman1, he has an incredible amount of resources for parents, teachers, and kids!   One of his pages is a list of resources for economics teachers.  

Your assignment should you choose to accept it (and you will) is to visit his part of his site.  After spending time on this site, I would like you to do 1 of the 3 following things:

1) Be an Investigator.  Select and explain your choices of the 3 sites you would most like to be allowed to use on the mid-term.
OR

2) Be the teacher.  Pick one of the webpages (pref. games) listed (probably better w/ ones on right) and design 2 days of meaningful, worthwhile classes around it.  What should we do with it?  How would I be sure you learned something?
OR

3) Be Thankful.  Write a thank you note to Jerry aka Cybraryman.  In your letter, mention three benefits to using the list he created.  The letter should be "send to him" worthy. It should also prove that you did serious investigation of his work.  Please only use his economics page but be aware he probably has a page for any class you are taking!