The+Process

How you complete the WebQuest
Before you can actually analyze real countries and look at their standard of living and how they compare to each other, you have to gather basic country information and data. You will individually gather data on the United States and one of the developing countries and enter the information on the chart in step 2.

1. Choose the country that you will research inside of your group

Developing: Cambodia, Mexico, DR Congo, Syria, or Burma

Developed: United States

2. Complete the chart for your country based on the following resources

Once you have chosen your countries, you will use the following links to fill in a chart that is focused on important data and information to understand your country + Complete this document for your country :

__**Resources**__ - U.S. CIA. “CIA: The World Factbook” [Online] 17 June 2013. []. This site is created by the CIA and is updated every week. This will be the most valuable source for you to find out about the country. It has a ton of information listed by country and gathered by each country and the U.S.

- Country Reports. “Country Reports: Cultural, Historical, Statistical, Country Information” [Online] 19 June 2013. <[]>. This is another site that lists information by country. I would use this source as a secondary one because it isn’t as credited as the CIA one, but it does have a bunch of info by country.

- Infoplease. “Infoplease: Countries of the World” [Online] 19 June 2013. <[]>. Same as above – search by country and check statistics.

- U.S. Department of State. “U.S. Department of State: Countries and Regions” [Online] 19 June 2013. []. This site provides some detail on countries by the US government on travel and restrictions. It provides statistics, but it also gives warnings and discusses issues within each country.

- Unicef. “Unicef: Information by Country and Programme” [Online] 20 February 2003. []. This looks at programs that are trying to help individual countries. It discusses solutions to major world problems and what individuals can do to help out. It also provides some facts about issues within each country. You can find by country or read about a specific program that involves Unicef.

- The Economist. “The Economist: Topics” [Online] 19 June 2013. []. This looks specifically at the economics of the country and can help with government issues. You can look at this to understand standard of living. The topic page goes alphabetically and they can find their country this way.

3. Complete Analysis Questions as a group

Now you have a basic understanding of how your country functions and we need to take that information and compare and contrast that with the other countries. This will help us analyze our nations and describe their standards of living. Take the data that you gathered about your country, sit down with a partner and discuss your findings, and finally answer the analysis questions __**using**__ the data that you gathered. Feel free to keep using the resources provided above to help answer these questions.

+ Complete these Analysis Questions:

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