IB 30/35
I finished of the Google Slides lecture on the "Causes of World War I" and then showed a video from the BBC series 'Days That Shook the World' on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. You should work on your IA this weekend! I've booked us into a computer lab next week.
Social 10-1
I collected your friendly letters at the beginning of class. We played global bingo today, and a few of you will get prizes next week. You have a homework assignment tonight, you need to find 25 items from 25 different countries, and put the information that you collect into a chart. It would probably be smart to categorize the information right from the beginning, since you will have to use this data when you use it for an upcoming mapping assignment.You will have a World Geography Test next Friday, the study guide for this test can be found in today's post on the blog if you scroll down completely.25 Item Chart Instructions:
- find 25 items from 25 different countries (you can't have 5 items from one country!)
- find items from any of the following categories: food, clothing, electronics, household goods, entertainment, and miscellaneous (if it doesn't fit into any of the previous categories)
- don't just find items from one category (for example, 25 food items)
- try to find 4-6 items from each category
- collect your information about your items in a 3-column chart (item, country, category)
- don't assume that an item is from a particular country (for example, a Sony PS4 may be manufactured in Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea, that is the information that we want
- for entertainment, for example a CD (or MP3) we want to know where the recording artist is from, not where the CD was manufactured, this will better illustrate social globalization
when you are collecting the information for your chart, number off the items (1-25) and have the categorized separate (in other words, the first 5 items on your chart should belong to the same category, etc.) - the more organized your chart is, the easier it will be to put that information on to a map!
SOCIAL 10-1 WORLD GEOGRAPHY TEST STUDY GUIDE:
This test will take place on Friday, September 15th. It is simply a country and capital cities identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries, capital cities, and places identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:
- any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU)
- any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
- any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
- full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
- to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan
- other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, China, India, Myanmar (Burma), Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
- **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**
Please use the following links for studying for this test:
- World Geography Games
- Test Your Geography Knowledge
- Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)
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