Climate
WebQuest
We all love amusement parks. The thrills and chills…the rides… the upset stomachs. What a blast!
However, before you can experience the excitement of an amusement park, a lot of serious time and energy is spent determining where to locate a park.
The location must be chosen very carefully. Just consider if an amusement park is buried under snow ten months a year? Or what if you have to wait in line for hours with temperatures soaring into the 100’s?
Would you go to a park located near a volcano? Would you ride a roller coaster built on an earthquake fault line? What type of vegetation would best support the mass influx of customers? The selection of a site is not as easy as you may think.
The Cedar Point Amusement Park Company has hired our class as consultants to investigate seven sites for their new amusement park, Cedar Point Deluxe. Each consulting team, consisting of TWO members, will research a potential park site. The company has chosen the following sites as possibilities for the new park.
8 Arusha, Tanzania, Africa 8 Jarrell, Texas, USA
8 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 8 Saipan, Japan
8 Commonwealth of Dominica 8 Saskatchewan, Canada
8 Hong Kong, China
Before you begin, please choose a business colleague (partner) to work with on the project.
- Vegetation
- Climate Zone
- Relevant Plate Tectonic Activity
- Any other interesting, relevant, appropriate information from that city.
The executive summary should contain three positive aspects of the location and two negative aspects. (Refer to the sample included).
The analysis should be at least one to two pages double-spaced. It needs to be convincing and informative. The analysis should be carefully written and proofread well! Each misspelled word will result in the loss of three points.
We will be working on this assignment for three days. Tasks should be broken down as follows:
Day One: Research
- One member of the team will do online research (see resources section.) The other member will serve as print media experts using the atlas, encyclopedias, books, magazines, newspapers, etc.
Day Two: Research and rough draft
- Switch roles. The online research team member from yesterday becomes the print media expert today and the print media expert becomes the online Expert.
Day Three: Final composition
- The team works together to complete the Executive Summary.
Use only the following resources, as they will be helpful in your endeavor
Your project will be judged on four criteria:
Date:
Objective: (what are you hoping to accomplish with this summary)
Name of the city studied
The positive aspects of this site include: (refer to supporting data from Facts-At-A-Glance)
The negative aspects of this site include: (refer to supporting data from Facts-At-A-Glance)
Based upon our findings, we recommend…………..
Team Members Names
Titles (create your own)