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Decisions, Decisions: Town Government (10-User Lab Pack) (Mac / Win)
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Grade Levels: 5-10
Give your students a real feel for local government as they struggle with issues common to towns across the country and through history. How will a town handle rapid growth in population? What new services will be needed and how will they be funded? What about crime and crowding? How might growth affect lifestyle? As students grapple with these questions, they learn about the structure of local government.
Help your students make some of the most important decisions in history right in your classroom!
Real-world decisions build real-world skills
Teamwork
Group decision-making
Problem identification and problem-solving
Reading comprehension
Oral and written communication
Role-playing brings your curriculum to life:
With each title in the Decisions, Decisions series, students role-play a decision-maker faced with a critical situation drawn right from your history or contemporary issues curriculum. As presidents, feudal lords, mayors, or independence leaders, students use a proven 5-step model for critical thinking and decision-making to gather and review information, discuss options, and take action. Your students not only acquire information, they learn how to use it.
Award-winning series by teachers, for teachers:
Decisions, Decisions has been winning awards and praises for more than a decade. Version 5.0 makes using it in your classroom easier than ever. You only need one computer for the entire class, or you can use it with small groups. But no matter how you use it, you'll enjoy the most amazing discussions you've ever had in your classroom.
When the residents of a small American town face a large and unforeseen dilemma, how do they resolve the problem?
Decisions, Decisions: Town Government transports students into the middle of a typical town conflict. Malaco, the local mining company in Alpine, wants to expand. Already, hundreds of people have moved to Alpine in anticipation of new jobs. Roadways are clogged. Power is in short supply. How will the community address these problems? Will Malaco's growth revitalize Alpine's economy? At what cost?
The dynamics of local government reveal themselves at every twist and turn of the story. As mayor of Alpine, students weigh the pros and cons of Malaco's expansion. In the process, they learn about town meetings, town services, the structure of local governments, and the rights and responsibilities of local residents. They also discover how much authority rests in the hands of the mayor, government committees, and residents.
Topics covered:
Local Government
Civic Responsibility
Citizenship
Democracy
System Requirements
Windows
Pentium 50 MHz Processor Minimum
Windows OS 3.1/ 95/ 98
8 MB RAM Minimum
256 colors; 640x480 resolution
Macintosh
PowerPC 30 MHz Processor Minimum
Mac OS
5 MB RAM Minimum
256 colors; 640x480 resolution
