Monday, December 23, 2013

Criminal Justice
Show 48 Hours Mystery: Loved to Death
Have Students do mod 16 pre final project

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Watch Inside the Mind of Google?
Answer
1.Who are the founders of Google?
2. How do they make money? Give multiple example.

Read Robots,self driving cars- What's going on with Google

Answer
1.What is a conglomerate?
2.What is Google doing to prepare itself for the future?
3. What do you think about their plan?

Watch Self Driving Car
Researching your BEST stock or your WORST stock reasearch and explain numerous things that are going on with your company
Create a very brief powerpoint that has the following elements
Name of Company , Logo, description of what they do



Monday, December 9, 2013

1. Read about the Laws of Demand. What are the 5 factors that can influence demand?
2. WatchABC News look at Starbux. Summarize into a paragraph the news report's conclusions about the starbux's decline and resurgence .
3.-Search current news articles to find a recent example of 3 of the factors that effect demand for a product.( as explained in the above article.)
- Summarize each current example into 2-3 sentences.
example: The demand for iphones 3G (sales of) has dropped in recent months because of the rumors of the new 4G iphone that have been circulating on internet chat rooms. Rumors abound about a waterproof 4g phone that has a battery with twice the life.
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Monday, December 2, 2013

stock market

Join the stock market game. This contest will run until the end of the semester. The goal is to learn how the market works and to better understand the concepts of supply and demand.Click on the link below. Use your ridley password and create a username that includes your first and last name.
Join my contest
After joining the contest the questions on the below link are the key concepts and terms that you need to know to be successful in this unit. They will all be fair game for the unit test on the market.
http://www.howthemarketworks.com/education/stock-questions.php
Power point project
Pick one company.
You must create a power point for that company.
The goal of the power point is to inform the class on the following things:

What is the company?
What does it do? Use the company’s profile on yahoo finance as the source. ( Research and learn. Don’t tell us what you think they do)
What other companies and or products do they own / produce?
What is the stock's currently price? ( time / date/ price)
Find a current headline( from yahoo finance) that explains something that is going on with the company. Briefly explain it.
How has the company’s stock been doing over the last 52 weeks?
Cut and paste pictures/ charts/ graphs onto the power point. Not a lot of words are needed. Your explanation of these is the important thing.
Do power point on your gmail account.
COPS survey
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