The Fracchia Page
a guide to navigating the educational world of Fracqistan
Crafting Our Town
How do we create a country that works?
Step 1: Creating Our Business
A. On your website, create a new page titled Business Summary
B. On the Business Summary page explain the title of your business, its employees, employers, how your business makes its income, the expenses your company charges, and a picture of your business.
C. Ask your teacher for your total income and your expenses.
D. On your Business Summary page write down your income and expenses. Then figure out the total amount of money that your company has left over. This is your company's profit. Profit is the money that a company makes after it has payed all of its expenses.
E. Write down your company's profit on your Business Summary page.
F. On your page, explain whether your company is profitable and how it could be made more profitable.
Step 2: Creating a Country
Apparently the middle school is now under attack! We need to band together and create a country to protect ourselves.
A. Talk to the other business owners in your class. Work with them to create a country that includes all the businesses in your class.
B. Create a new site with the name of your country. Share that site with your teacher and the students in the country.
C. Every country requires a government. It is time for you to create a government. Explore the resources on the right to learn about different governments. Talk to your fellow classmates about what type of government you would like to have.
D. Create a page on your country that says Government. On that page write down what type of government you would like to have for your country, whether it is representational or authoritative, who will be in the government, and how they will be chosen.
E. Either Google a blank island or draw your own. This will be your country. Cut it out, write your country name on the island and put it up in our ocean.
F. What are some other ways that a government can be chosen? Which ones do you think are the best? Why?
Types of Government
Step 3: Powers of the Government
Governments can not do just anything that they would like. Most countries have a constitution that explains what a government can and can not do.
A. Learn about the powers of governments using the resources on the right.
B. On your personal website create a Government page Explain what are some of the powers and limitations of a government.
C. Using the VoiceThread on the right or Wordsmyth.net. find defintions for the following terms and then on your Government page define them in your own words with a picture for each
-legislation
-armed forces
-foreign policy
D. Meet with the other members of your country and discuss what should be the powers and limitations of your government. On your group website Government page create a constitution that explains what the powers and limitations of your government should be.
D. What should be the powers and limitations of the classroom ? Create a constitution for the classroom. See if you can get everyone in the room to sign it!
Powers of Government
Honors Project: Economy and Value
A. Watch the video here
B. Look up the words inflation and deflation
C. Create a visual display that explains
-how people get what they need
- how money gets its value
-when money might lose its value (use the words inflation in your example)
-what you think people might be able to do about inflation
-at least 2 pictures