Copy and paste the chart into a word document.
| City Ordinances | Predictions | Vote (Yes or No) |
| 1% Sales Tax | | |
| 1% income tax | | |
| Legalized Gambling | | |
| Parking Fines | | |
| Pro-Reading Campaign | | |
| Anti-Drug Campaign | | |
| CPR Training | | |
| Neighborhood Watch | | |
| Energy Conservation | | |
| Nuclear Free Zone | | |
| Homeless Shelter | | |
| Pollution Controls | | |
| Volunteer Fire department | | |
| Public Smoking Ban | | |
| Free Clinics | | |
| Junior Sports | | |
| Tourist Advertisements | | |
| Business Advertising | | |
| City Beautification | | |
| Annual Carnival | | |
Type in what you think would happen to your city if you use one of these ordinances in the prediction box. Then mark whether you would use the ordinance in a city you created.
Test Run
- Open SimCity 2000.
- Click Load Saved City
- Load Lakeland
- Open the Speed menu and Pause
- Open the Disaster menu and select No disasters.
- Remember RULE NUMBER 1. DO NOT SAVE WHEN USING LAKELAND
- Open the Windows menu and select Ordinances
- Check off all your Ordinance. So None of them should have check marks next to them.
- Now using CTRL 4 and Ctrl P run your city for over 20 years. It does not have to be exact. Just make sure you run your city for over twenty years.
- While in pause reopen the Ordinances. Look over the Ordinances and notice they are in categories. Now open the Graph menu and look over the different graphs.
- Pick one of the ordinances predictions to test.
- Devise and run an experiment to test your predictions.
- Copy and past the following into your word document.
Ordinances Tested: _________________________________________________
Prediction: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Main Changing Factor to Watch. What will graph or chart will you watch to see your predictions. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Factor Change During Control Run (not using any ordinances) and year you started in: _________________________________________________________________________________
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Factor Change During Test Run< Make sure you start your test run in roughly the same year> ___________________________________________________________________________________
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Results of your Test. Was your prediction correct?? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Questions
1. Did your test verify your predictions? Why or Why not?
2. List three different types of governments that can make laws.
3. Was your test accurate and what could have made your test more accurate.