Project topic and description

Post on your own blog. Include the following:

Your project title
Your team partners (if any)
How does your project tie into the subject of Economics
If you are in a group, what is your responsibility in this group?
What multimedia delivery mechanism you will use (e.g. PowerPoint, Video, etc.)
What resources you need to complete the project.

Blog login: yourfirstname.yourlastname@portchesterschools.org

What is due for progress reports

Workbook assignments:

1. Unit 1 Lessons 1, 2, 3 & 4

Blog assignments:

1. Create blog
2. Post link to your site on this blog http://pchsecon.blogspot.com/2007/09/post-your-blog-urls-here.html
3. Weekly reading assignment #1 on your Blog http://pchsecon.blogspot.com/2007/02/weekly-reading-and-posting.html
4. Capitalism replaces Mercantilism post on your Blog: http://pchsecon.blogspot.com/2007/02/capitalism-replaces-mercantilism.html

Worksheets:

1. Production Possibility Curve
2. How do Economies Change?
3. Alan Greenspan Article
4. Gasoline Prices

Post your Blog URL's here

I need to know how to find your site to evaluate your work so post the following:

1. Your name
2. The period you take economics
3. The link to your Blog

Excel chart upload

Copy chart from Excel:

1. Click select chart you want to copy


2. Use 'Edit/Copy' pull down command in excel


3. Paste it into MS Paint


4. File save as BMP file


5. Upload to your blog.

If anyone knows an easier way, let me know by posting in teh comments section below.

Suggested reading links

Here is an article from the Journal news yesterday about rising insurance rates and the impact it has on some people.

Video link test: Gas prices go up, up& away from MSNBC.com
Method used: hover mouse over link to video clip, right click and copy link.

Creating Wealth from Trade

The data from our class activity for creating wealth is located in the share directory on the school server. S:\Josephson\Econ folder

Your task is
1. Analyze the data results
2. Create and print out one chart from the data
3. Make a Blog entry on your Blog summarizing the lesson procedure and drawing a conclusion from the data.

First project: infamous people

Ivan Boesky, Marc Rich, Nelson Bunker Hunt, and Martha Stewart are all names that will deliver serious hits on an Internet search for capitalist risk-takers whose actions have brought them shame.

YOUR TASK: Choose someone who has been involved in a financial scandal in the history of US capitalism and post on your blog the circumstances of their 'fall from grace'. A google search of 'financial scandal' should get you started.

Don't feel limited to recent scandals, any financial scandal in the history of the US is your only confine.

Capitalism replaces Mercantilism

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations ushered in a new era of economic thought. He is considered the father of capitalism. Capitalism replaced Mercantilism as the leading economic theory. Do some internet research on both terms and create a Blog entry including the following:

1. Definitions of Capitalism and Mercantilism.


2. When Wealth of Nations was published.


3. How this changed the role of Government in business.


4. What did Smith mean by the invisible hand.

Post your answer on your Blog.

Weekly reading and posting

Go to an internet news service (CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS, etc..) and find a business article that interests you. In a post on your own economics blog, create a link to the article and write a summary.

When you are finished, get two of your classmates to read your summary and post a reaction to it.

This assignment repeats every week we have class.

Send me an e-mail with a link to your blog so I can give you credit.

Thing's I'd like to know

Economics is a broad subject. When you're finished with this course, what are some things you'd like to know?

Project ideas

Instead of giving you a final exam. I'm looking for some good ideas of projects you might create. Post any suggestions here.