Wednesday, May 7, 2008

end of the year

 
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Welcome to our last blog. We have about 19 days left .We are finishing our year with a contemporary view of US problems and concerns.We have speakers every Tues/Thurs. You must fill out the colored speaker sheet each day. If you miss a day you must find out which topic you missed and then find an online article to read and complete a fleemap page of notes.You need a total of 9 speaker sheets handed in with your final project.The final is made up of a problem that you choose from my list of topics that you will solve by using maps to prove your solution.You must complete 11 draft maps ,about 2 each lab sesson.Then organize the final map and narration about how you solved the problem into a powerpoint presentation. You will have 1 hour to get ready ,and 1 hour to present and peer review your final project.
Topics are : Peace,Elections,Native Americans/Minn,Iraq War Vets,World Population,Edina City Gov.,Civic lLaw.
Have fun and be good ! Mrs. G