Thursday, March 24, 2005
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Simulated World Market for Grade Sixes
Topic: Canada and It's Trading Partners Simulated World Market
Concept: Simulate the process of selling Canadian products to overseas buyers, and purchasing products from overseas sellers.
Give kids knowledge of products, countries, the process for buying and selling and a bunch of fake 1 000 000 dollar bills. Their task: to go "abroad" and purchase the goods that Canada will be importing this year. They will be equipped with an Importers Shopping List, clipboards and a hat that has a Canadian Flag on it. They make their trip to another country, which is actually a booth with a couple of people at it, and they offer to buy products that the country sells.
Another group will represent Canadian producers: exporters. These people will also travel abroad and sell Canadian products to countries that need them.
Each country has its own "market profile" of what it needs to sell, and what it needs to buy. Of course, there can only be so much product available, perhaps not quite enough to meet the demand... (need to think about this). For example, Canadian softwood lumber, or Canadian newsprint would be in demand in several countries. The Canadian exporters would shop around to get the best price.
Logo: SIM stands for Simulated, and also Simplified. It could also be an acronym that stands for Successful International Mission or something like that. How about we try to design a logo for the event? Who could we invite to watch? Who would we communicate what we learn to? Is this something that should be photographed or videotaped?
Research: Needs to be done by the teachers to boil down the international trade stats into digestible bits of information. The teachers must design the game from start to finish, and create a workable set of rules and parameters for all participants. Job descriptions need to be written for every role played. Each role has evaluation tied to it driven by learning expectations. Each participant must somehow demonstrate an understanding of "Canada and It's Trading Partners." They must each be familiar with the basic facts about the products and the processes of importing and exporting.
Interesting that the Curriculum Unit uses the word "Partners." Do we always view our customers and suppliers as partners? A business partner is someone who is on your side. But recently, the U. S. has been no partner of ours when they refuse to buy some of our products! This would be a higher thinking level question.
Concept: Simulate the process of selling Canadian products to overseas buyers, and purchasing products from overseas sellers.
Give kids knowledge of products, countries, the process for buying and selling and a bunch of fake 1 000 000 dollar bills. Their task: to go "abroad" and purchase the goods that Canada will be importing this year. They will be equipped with an Importers Shopping List, clipboards and a hat that has a Canadian Flag on it. They make their trip to another country, which is actually a booth with a couple of people at it, and they offer to buy products that the country sells.
Another group will represent Canadian producers: exporters. These people will also travel abroad and sell Canadian products to countries that need them.
Each country has its own "market profile" of what it needs to sell, and what it needs to buy. Of course, there can only be so much product available, perhaps not quite enough to meet the demand... (need to think about this). For example, Canadian softwood lumber, or Canadian newsprint would be in demand in several countries. The Canadian exporters would shop around to get the best price.
Logo: SIM stands for Simulated, and also Simplified. It could also be an acronym that stands for Successful International Mission or something like that. How about we try to design a logo for the event? Who could we invite to watch? Who would we communicate what we learn to? Is this something that should be photographed or videotaped?
Research: Needs to be done by the teachers to boil down the international trade stats into digestible bits of information. The teachers must design the game from start to finish, and create a workable set of rules and parameters for all participants. Job descriptions need to be written for every role played. Each role has evaluation tied to it driven by learning expectations. Each participant must somehow demonstrate an understanding of "Canada and It's Trading Partners." They must each be familiar with the basic facts about the products and the processes of importing and exporting.
Interesting that the Curriculum Unit uses the word "Partners." Do we always view our customers and suppliers as partners? A business partner is someone who is on your side. But recently, the U. S. has been no partner of ours when they refuse to buy some of our products! This would be a higher thinking level question.
Sunday, March 20, 2005
March Break: What the Heck??
Since when does Hawaiin Tropicals have an interest in extreme beach partying and pushing young adults to the limits of their conscience?
Huh?
Huh?
Training is Love
It's so hard to train a kid. You get so caught up in correcting the behaviour, again and again, that you lose the joy in the relationship. It becomes cast more as a contest of wills than as a friendship.
"To love a child is to train him," is what my wife said in response.
"But it will be so long before we see the benefits of this kind of love. It may be a lifetime before our training, feeble and inconsistent as it is, will produce fruit; even then it will only be by God's grace."
We both were left feeling that it is the only way to be the parents God wants us to be. We will train our children as God enables us. God help us!
"To love a child is to train him," is what my wife said in response.
"But it will be so long before we see the benefits of this kind of love. It may be a lifetime before our training, feeble and inconsistent as it is, will produce fruit; even then it will only be by God's grace."
We both were left feeling that it is the only way to be the parents God wants us to be. We will train our children as God enables us. God help us!
Just Keep Breathing: Cast Away Movie and Hope
Watched Tom Hanks in Cast Away the other day.
Interesting movie: A guy, after surviving alone for four years on a deserted island with only a tiny picture of his fiancee in a watch she gave him, gets rescued and returns to his home town and meets the woman who he had proposed to four years earlier, but now she's married another guy. Awkward moment. Reality check.
"I shouldn't have gotten on that plane," he says with 20-20 hindsight.
He wisely acknowledges that the woman must stay with her husband and young child. Faced with this great loss, he calls to question whether or not he was a fool to hold out hope that turned out to be false.
He finally tries to express the meaning of four years of keeping alive, and tries to put into words the source of the hope: "'Just keep breathing, keep breathing' I told myself over and over again," and he would remember that she loved him. That is what carried him. But now, that he's been brought home, the hope has to be exchanged for a different one.
Hope is expressed in many ways. God uses hope to pull us in different directions, sometimes to simply keep us alive.
Without hope I die.
Interesting movie: A guy, after surviving alone for four years on a deserted island with only a tiny picture of his fiancee in a watch she gave him, gets rescued and returns to his home town and meets the woman who he had proposed to four years earlier, but now she's married another guy. Awkward moment. Reality check.
"I shouldn't have gotten on that plane," he says with 20-20 hindsight.
He wisely acknowledges that the woman must stay with her husband and young child. Faced with this great loss, he calls to question whether or not he was a fool to hold out hope that turned out to be false.
He finally tries to express the meaning of four years of keeping alive, and tries to put into words the source of the hope: "'Just keep breathing, keep breathing' I told myself over and over again," and he would remember that she loved him. That is what carried him. But now, that he's been brought home, the hope has to be exchanged for a different one.
Hope is expressed in many ways. God uses hope to pull us in different directions, sometimes to simply keep us alive.
Without hope I die.
Pizza Guy Debit Failure
Oh no.
My debit card wouldn't work in the swiper thing that the pizza guy brought to the door. What is the meaning of this?? Must be true: my debit card is WORN OUT from over use.
Thanks Bren, for loaning yours in its place
My debit card wouldn't work in the swiper thing that the pizza guy brought to the door. What is the meaning of this?? Must be true: my debit card is WORN OUT from over use.
Thanks Bren, for loaning yours in its place
Sherlock Holmes Quote (more or less)
After the elimination of all impossibilities, then what remains is the possible, as unlikely as it may seem to be.
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