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Grade 7 and 8 Link to surveymonkey survey. Please think about your answers before you respond.

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__** Social Studies Grade 8-Tuesday, May 24 **__

First of all, thanks for trying to listen to instructions and get your work done as was requested by your teacher. We would like to give you 9 students the opportunity to try a project on your own that can develop in a unique way for all of you. The outcome that we are studying right

**RW 8.2 Assess the implications of personal consumer choices.**

I t is important that we as consumers consider the implications of our choices and take responsibility for the role we play in consumerism. 1. I would like you to start by watching a couple of videos that will hopefully open up your thinking about responsible consumerism.

[|How to Consume Responsibly] [|Responsible Consumerism]

2. Check out the slide show on the same topic.

[|Responsible Consumerism]

3. Check out the following three web sites.

[|Responsible Consumerism] [|What is Ethical consumerism?] [|Socially Responsible Consumerism]

4. I would like you to think of a topic or subject that would fall in the area of responsible consumerism and prepare a final product that can be published on the web to provide information to someone else on responsible consumerism. I do not want this to be a 5 minute project. I would like you to use this opportunity to try and make a difference about something that you may care about. It may be about green consumerism, it may be about a company or a product that you would like to research. If you are stuck you can see me and we can brainstorm some ideas together.

5. Once you have researched and planned out your product we will need to put it in a form that can be published. You may want to consider the following tools or use something that you have used before that you know works for you.

Possible tools: If you decide to use prezi, which a a pretty neat tool, you will have to sign up for a free account. If you want to use animoto you may want to use my account because I have upgraded to allow longer videos.
 * [|Prezi]
 * [|Voicethread]
 * [|Animoto]
 * power point
 * video
 * other

Social Studies-April 15 Go to your wordpress blog, open the social studies page and answer the following questions: 1. Who has power in our school? List as many as you can and explain why you think so. 2. Who has power in our community? (same as above) 3. What power do you think you have as an individual? Do you think you have power in any areas of your life? Do you think this has changed over time? Explain. 4. In which area(s) of your life do you feel that you have the most power? 5. Do you think we have more power as individuals, or do you think our power may be stronger if we work as a group? Explain.

Research the following and save in a word document ready to discuss next class. Remember to have it in your own words:

What does democracy mean to you? Give an example What do you think are the key principles in creating a democracy?

http://questgarden.com/author/create/preview.php?u=104775&l=104775-100614203317&pt=student&p=introduction

=Social Studies 7 - March 1, 2011 = =Why is it important for countries to promote good stewardship of natural resouces? Give at least one specific example. = = = __** Social Studies 7-Tuesday, November 16 **__ We want to give everyone time to catch up to where you are and I am going to jog your memory this morning.

1. I would like you to finish the 3 things we started on November 10

2. Find 3 interesting facts about your country and post those to your page on the wiki

3. Go to your blog and write your thoughts on our discussion with the mayor. What did you learn? What things do you have in your notes? Did you think this was a good way to gather information? Why or why not? If you were not taking notes, you will have to find someone who was and use their notes. This will require you to think about how globalization effects Estevan and/or Saskatchewan.

__** Social Studies 7-Wednesday, November 10 **__

Today I would like you to add 3 things to your page on the wiki:

1. The name of your country and what continent it is located in.

2. Find a map of your country and put it on your site (make sure you give credit to your source.)

3. Find a picture of your countries flag and put in on your page. (again, make sure you give credit to your source.)

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