Have a great holiday!!!

We spent our final day going over the physical features of Africa with a great Promethean presentation. Click on the link below to see it. Have an awesome break!! Post comments here if you want to chat :)
Physical Features of Africa

This Week

We finished up last week with our test over the Economics unit in the Middle East. This allowed us to begin our next area of study for 7th grade social studies...Africa!

Monday-We viewed a Discovery channel film on Africa
Tuesday-We went over the test from Friday and learned about our first project in Africa which would create a 3-D replica of the continent in small groups!
Wednesday- We broke out into groups and began constructing our maps
Thursday- Ice Day No school!!
Friday- Map Project continued....
Copies of the 3-D Project are available under the Assignments link to the left.

Jeopardy and Review Sheet

I have attached a link to the Jeopardy game over Economics that we played in class today. You can also print up another copy of the study guide for the test by clicking on the link from the assignments heading to the left.
Jeopardy Game on Middle East Economics

Here is the link to the documentary we saw over the last few days "Who Killed the Electric Car"
Who Killed the Electric Car

Capital or Human Resource???

Today we finished up our discussion of  three different economic approaches countries are taking in the Middle East and showed our masteryof the concepts by completing a promethean flipchart activity. A copy of the flipchart is here for your review.

Capital or Human Resources???

Tomorrow and Wednesday- We are seeing the documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car?
Wednesday night homework will be to complete the review sheet!

Thursday- we will be playing jeopardy for our test on Friday over Economics

Friday- Unit Test!!! Don't forget to study!

End of the Week

Thursday-
We kicked off our class with some great political cartoons about OPEC as well as continued our discussion on the subject.

Friday-
We read a Gallopade section on human capital and capital investments. Hope you all had a great weekend!

Weed and Wash or Weed or Wash

Monday-
This week we started off our discussion of Middle East economies with an activity on Specialization
Weed and Wash or Weed or Wash allowed us to divide up work between two friends to make the best use of their time.

Tuesday-
We continued our talk about specialization to discuss how the countries of the Middle East have chosen to specialize. We completed a Word Splash using 4 of our new terms in a sentence.

Wednesday- We began our talk about OPEC and worked on a Problem Solution Handout for Saudi Arabia. The handout let us brainstorm ways to deal with a possible economic crisis when economies choose to overspecialize. The Problem Solution Handout is under the assignment heading to the left.