Human Geography October 26-Travel Time and Distances

Traveling to and from E Asia

CONGRATULATIONS! Your boss has handed you the responsibility of booking her business trips from each of the capital cities in E Asia over the next three months to various major cities throughout the world

Step 1: Identify the capital cities of E Asian countries

Step 2: Go to a travel website like Orbitz, Kayak, or Travelocity

Step 3: Enter the dates of your flights (10/25/2013 to 1/25/2013).  Your departure airport is the capital city’s airport from each country

Step 4: Your destinations need to include: 2 from Europe, 2 from North America and 2 from Africa

Step 5: Record the prices, flight times, and duration for the flight by making an itinerary in Notability.  Include the airline your boss is on and the flight number and the city they will stay at Make sure your destination is a population center-not some remote area.  Put a picture of the destination city and record the information underneath it.

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Step 6: Send the finished product to me when you are completely finished
jarnebec@apps.district833.org

Political Science October 24-Special Interest Groups

Today you will choose a special interest group to research and create a report.  To find a list of interest groups, use the following link:
http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/kfountain

Human Geography-Japan Virtual Tour

Today's investigation asks you to click on the following link http://web-japan.org/atlas/index.html

Once you get to the page, you need to watch:
Japan Slide Show I
and
Japan Slide Show II

In order to answer these questions.
The nice thing about this lesson is it allows you to go at your own pace.
Have fun and don't forget to complete the T-Chart at the end.

Political Science October 21-Executive Command

Your job today is to be a software evaluator.  Take 45 minutes to play Executive Command on the iCivics webpage.  For the last 10 minutes of class, you should record your ideas on a half sheet of paper and tell me the following:
1. What did you think of the game overall?
2. What did you like about it?
3. What parts of the game could stand to be improved?
4. Would you be willing to try to evaluate more software from this website in the future?

Click to get to the website http://www.icivics.org/games/executive-command

Political Science October 9 2013-ReDistricting Game

Yesterday you took a look at redistricting on paper with the example of the city of Athena.  Today, you will participate in a simulation on the desktops that will challenge you to create new voting district boundaries based on equal population distribution, ethnic representation in accordance with the Voting Rights Act, and bipartisan fairness.  After completing as many missions as possible, record on the sheet what you map looked like for each mission before continuing on to the next.

Here is the link to get you to the ReDistricting Game.

http://www.redistrictinggame.org/index.php?pg=game

Political Science-MN Election Results

Use the information from the 2012 election maps provided by the Mn Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie, to help you identify the dominant political parties in the 8 congressional districts in Minnesota as well as how each county in MN voted for the Governor's office in 2010.  The purpose of the activity is to allow you to see where the Democrat and Republican voting bases are located in our state.  Fill out your blank maps with the appropriate color for the political party candidate that won the district (in the case of the 2012 US Rep elections) or the county (in the case of the 2010 Governor election)

Here are the links to get to the proper maps for the activity:

2012 US Congressional Map
http://www.sos.state.mn.us/index.aspx?page=1734
Select US Representative, margin by district

2010 MN Governor Map
http://www.sos.state.mn.us/index.aspx?page=1634
Select Governor, margin by county