Introduction
As part of our year 10 Humanities course we are able to research a topic and create a project to show case at a final exhibition. The topic that Ben and I are doing is ‘Economics’ and the inquiry question is ‘How much do (we) Australia rely on China’
What our project will be?
Our group plans for the exhibition is to be able to present the information we plan to have some posters which show relevant facts and statistics. To make our exhibition more interactive, we plan to make a trade game which is related to real trading with China and Australia.
The Game:
Our game will be an interactive trade type game which also acts as a social experiment/simulation between the economic dependence between China and Australia with the addition of other countries. The game is set out on a map of the world
- You will play as Australia and your goal is to make as much money as possible, trading Iron ore to different countries
- You can trade with different countries such as Japan, China, United kingdom, India, Russia, Canada, Thailand and America. However different countries have a different demand for Iron ore and pay either more or less per 1000 tons of Iron ore
- You can only trade with two different countries at a time
- There will be events that have an influence in the game such as Covid, an Increase in export cost, and higher tariffs
- There is a 5 minute time limit. During the 5 minutes, you need to make as much money as possible from exporting iron
- Players will roll a dice to find out how many 1000 tons of Iron ore gets exported (E.G if you roll the dice and get two “fives” you get to export 10000 tones of iron ore)
The steps I have completed are?
- Finished all 10 sources
- Brainstorm sheet
- Project timeline
- E-portfolio
- Begun “project”
- Completed 3/3 of posters
- Made progress on interactive game
- Econnomy Game
Plan for the future?
Time – line shows the steps and the plan for the future Project time – line (this timeline has what we want to do on each: it allows us to better plan our time to be more efficient with working through the project)
| Ter 3 (Week 8 ) |
| Gathering Ideas about Topic |
| Economic |
| How much does Australia depend on China? |
| Term 3 (Week 9) |
| Starts doing research, gathering relevant information |
| Annotated Bibliography Research (5 each) |
| Plan out the key dates |
| Term 3 (Week 10) |
| finalizing our Annotated Bibliography Research |
| Any further questions about the topic – if there is any, more research are needed. |
| submit Eportfolio |
| Term 4 (Week 1) |
| continue gathering research |
| ideate ideas on how to present our findings/information |
| Term 4 (Week 2) |
| Start to create our presentation |
| finalise research |
Capabilities?
The skills which I need for this project and presentation for the Exabition are:
- Research skills – Help to gather relevant facts and information about our topic
- communication – Use this to be able to communicate to other group members if one is away
- Organization – Use this to be able to set out clear goals and tasks to help us stay on track E.G our timeline
- Creative thinking – Use this to be able to come up with good ideas for our project
- Collaboration – To be able to work together effectively as a group
The skills that I need to develop are Effective communication with group members to be able to work out who does what in the group, The skill Organization is a skill that I can develop as developing it more allows us to be able to better use our time efficiently.
This was the planning sheet what we included were what skill we need and need to develop, what our ideas are, how we will present and what steps are needed.
