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Maps & Charts History & Culture Population Growth in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Largest Cities City and Year San Jose Population 1910 28,946 1950 95,280 1970 459,913 1990 782,248 San Francisco 1910 416,912 1950 775,357 1970 715,674 1990 723,959 Oakland 1910 150,174 1950 384,575 1970 361,561 1990 372,242 Fremont 1910 City not yet incorporated […]

Maps & Charts Trade & Economics US-Japan Annual Average Exchange Rate 1970 to 1996, in Japanese Yen per US Dollar Top 30 US Exports to Japan: 1996 Top 30 US Imports from Japan: 1996 US-Japan Direct Investment Statistics Japan Country Fact Sheet US-Japan Merchandise Trade Data, 1960—1997  

Maps & Charts Trade & Economics U.S.-Japan Annual Average Exchange Rate 1970 to 1996, in Japanese Yen per US Dollar Year Yen Per Dollar % Change from Previous Year 1970 360 0 1971 349.33 -3 1972 303.11 -13 1973 271.7 -10 1974 292.08 8 1975 296.79 2 1976 296.55 0 1977 268.51 -9 1978 210.44 […]

  Brag Sheet Name: _____________________________ My role in the group was: ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Student evaluation List all the ways you helped your group complete this task. ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ List all the ways you helped your group work effectively and cooperatively. ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ On a scale of 1 (worst) to 10 (best), I would […]

Teacher Orientation Activity Guides Expedition 2: What Goes In? Students investigate environmental threats to the marine ecosystems of Tokyo Bay and San Francisco Bay and hold a mock press conference to share their findings. Rationale For millennia, bays and estuaries have been sites of intensive human settlement. It is no coincidence that many of the […]

Ecology & Environment   Expedition 2: What Goes In? In this activity, your team goes undercover to investigate the health of the marine and estuary environment in either the San Francisco or Tokyo Bay. You will publish your findings in a news magazine and also host a press conference to summarize your results. Your team’s […]

Ecology & Environment     Expedition 3: What’s in a Watershed? We all live in a watershed. Part of the hydrological cycle, a watershed represents the portion of a landscape that drains to a particular stream, river or other body of water. In this activity you research and map the watersheds that drain into Tokyo […]

Teacher Orientation Activity Guides Expedition 3: What’s In a Watershed? Students research the watersheds of Tokyo Bay and San Francisco Bay and make maps that illustrate the geography of the watershed. Rationale We all live in a watershed. Part of the hydrological cycle, a watershed represents the portion of a landscape that drains to a […]