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Curriculum Resources for the Alaskan Environment
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Subject Areas: social
science, economics, business
Timeline: two to six
weeks
Grade Levels:
5-12
Purpose: to acquaint
students with corporate obligations and options; to
familiarize students with their own
responsibilities as shareholders in corporations
setup under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act
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J. Bacon
The
Corporation
Game or Alaska
Monopoly
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Activities
- List 15-25 real or imagined
business areas (e.g., "Far North Airlines," "Fish
Processing Plant," "Tourism Enterprises," Construction,
Inc.," etc).
- Make a large (2' x 3') poster to
represent each business area.
- Make posters for "JAIL," "GO,"
"CHANCE," "INCOME TAX," and "FREE PARKING."
- Staple business-sized envelope to
each poster.
- Teacher will price business
properties and write appropriate "chance" cards. For
example: "Your corporation president steals the
corporation Lear Jet and flies to Brazil. You lose your
turn" or "IRS in your favor. Take $2,000 from the
bank."
- Each player becomes a corporation
and must decide on a name and print name on a piece of
cardboard that will fit into the envelopes stapled to
posters.
- Each corporation receives cash and
stock.
- Roil dice to commence play. Stick
cardboard piece into envelopes to mark each
turn.
- When players land on property,
they must decide whether or not to buy it if the property
is owned by another corporation, the player must pay rent
(maybe 10 percent of purchase price).
- Mergers are allowed.
- Play one to two hours per day for
a week. The corporation with the most dollars and assets
wins. Each member gets a dividend.
Resources
- paint, markers, butcher paper,
mimeographed money, walls
- Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act educational materials
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Variations
- Increase the complexity of choices
(e.g., include points for subsistence safeguards and
shareholder mental health; incorporate into cash profits
costs to the environment and societal
well-being).
- Give dividends at the end of each
session (and reduce available cash).
- Continue sessions until interest
wanes.
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