With the 2016 presidential election right around the corner, geography provides a dynamic view of the spatial patterns and processes that shape the electorate. The major presidential campaigns know that a winning strategy must use geography to make informed decisions about where to allocate limited resources such as money and staff. In the end,…

Computer software that will help intermediate and secondary social studies students learn to make rational decisions about personal and societal concerns are described. The courseware places students in the roles of business managers who make decisions about operating their firms. (RM)

Suggested for use as a classroom resource, this article encourages students to decide what they expect and want from a job, set specific career goals, be aware of the risks in changing jobs, recognize when a dead-end is reached in the present job, and evaluate job satisfaction and advancement opportunities. (CT)

This simulation can be used to help secondary students examine the national and global energy issue. Students role-play various groups, including the Departments of Energy and Transportation, the U.S. Automobile Manufacturer's Association, oil lobby groups, conservation groups, citizen groups, a solar lobbying organization, and a nuclear power…

Presents three simulations in which participants must make decisions based on a limited number of choices among a defined set of alternatives. Students (1) decide which English convicts will be transported to the colonies; (2) place individuals in one of two retirement homes; and (3) choose which children will help their mother draw up her will.…

Presents a lesson plan using "Decision at Richmond," a play dramatizing the debate over United States Constitutional ratification, to demonstrate to students the importance of the unique process used to make political decisions in the United States. (Author/AEM)

Describes personal parenting experiences with environmentally ethical decision making. Lists eight suggestions for dealing with dilemmas presented by the clash between environmental ideals and the reality of our environment. Provides an address for additional information. (MCO)

Examines a classroom project in which a computer simulation is used to teach about immigration. Points out that this simulation encourages students to develop analytical and decision making skills. Concludes that simulations of this kind challenge students to learn more. (BSR)

Describes a simulation, "Ethics for Administrators," which is designed to help the student understand why he takes certain ethical positions and not others, and to challenge him to identify the systematic elements within his professional ethics. (Author/CK)

Provides a simulation based on Marco Polo's journey. Demonstrates the hardships of 13th century travel by presenting students with difficult choices under challenging and primitive environmental conditions. Includes suggestions for class activities prior to using the simulation. (LS)

Describes a classroom game simulating the American westward movement in 1850. Designed for junior high school students, emphasis is on making decisions, clarifying values, and understanding the conditions of those who moved to the West. (Author/CK)

Activity requires secondary students to make an entrepreneurial decision concerning a conflict between long-term and short-term results. Students read a dilemma story involving an automobile manufacturer. They must write down positive and negative consequences for alternative decisions on a "Human Consequences Matrix" and an "Economic Consequences…

Presents details for a game to familiarize secondary level students with the decision-making behavior of firms in a competitive society. Students representing firms must choose one of four options to deal with government invervention in their industry's pollution of the environment. (KC)

Describes a decision-making educational game based on the pioneer experiences of British army personnel in Canada in the early nineteenth century. Procedures for playing the game are outlined. (DB)

Presents a simulation which examines the complexities of governmental machinery and the government's decision-making process. As the first in the American Foreign Policy Simulations series, this exercise in negotiation and compromise seeks to explore the potency of official roles in contrast to belief systems in foreign policymaking. (GEA)