Economics+Course+Outline

 Final Project**-Due Tuesday June 16, with presentations Present in some form, discuss Canada's economic dependence on the United States and China. Points to include:
 * June 9
 * How is Canada dependent on the U.S. and China?
 * How is the U.S. dependent on us?
 * What steps can Canada take to lesson the dependence?
 * Be sure to reference the GDP and Canada's national debt.
 * Include a visual depicting Canada's dependence on the U.S., it can be a cartoon or a graph.
 * Include a title page and a bibliography.
 * If you do a power point presentation, you will need to present it to the class.(15 bonus marks for presenting to the class)

Title Page/Bibliography-10 Content- 30 Grammar-__10__
 * Marking Scheme**
 * Total __50__**

Made in China**-**60 marks** For 24 hours, try not to use anything that is made in China. On your wiki, record your experience. Note what you absolutely had to use from China. Set up a second page linked to your home wiki page. Call this second page "Made in China". Answer the following questions on your wiki: 1. How difficult was it to participate in this exercise? 2. Was this experience disruptive to your daily life?How so. 3. The United States and therefore Canada are heavily dependent on China, discuss in two paragraphs. 4. How would the economy in Canada be effected if trade(imports and exports) was stopped with China and the United States? 5. List five things you use in your daily lives that are made in China, Canada and the United States. 6. Why is China such an attractive trade partner with North American capitalists?
 * June 4

[|currency]** [|Oil Prices] Using the above link, graph the Canadian currency against the American currency for the last five months(Jan-May 09). On a seperate graph, find the average price for a barrel of oil for this period as well. Looking at both graphs, draw some sort of conclusion, connection, between the three sets of information, and respond via google docs, (call assignment Currency and share with me only, you can use google docs spreadsheets to graph your information) - **20 marks, 10 marks for currency graph(Can and US), 5 marks for oil graph and 5 marks for conclusion.**
 * June 2

In podcast form, complete a Mercer Rant about our national debt. It must be a minimum of 1 minute long. In a rant, you are to be very prepared and well spoken about the topic.
 * May 29**
 * Mercer Rant-20 marks**

Blog- Go to [|Blog] and respond.

**May 25** [|National Debt]-50 marks Create a poster highlighting the concepts in the above I.O.U.S.A. documentary. Many of these concepts we have talked about in chapters 5 & 6. Define each term you refer to( in your own words). Use pictures,graphs and catch phrases(ie Fiscal Cancer) from the documentary to help explain the concepts that you are talking about. Include a 2-3 paragraph explanation about Canada's national debt and how it can and will impact your future. 2-3 paragraph explanation 10 Creativity 10**
 * concepts - 30 ( you should have 8-10 concepts noted on poster)

[|Inflation Calculator] Choose 20 things that you use or value today, (car, movie tickets, concert ticket), estimate the cost of these things if you don't absolutely know. Using the inflation calculator link, calculate how much that item would cost in 1945. Set up a table using excel to compare the two price differences. Graph the differences. In two paragraphs, discuss different current events that have occurred that may have led to this increase or decrease in price. Graph-10 marks Paragraphs 10 marks
 * May 15**


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