# Let's Explore Geography! Teacher's Guide and Solution Manual

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## Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Tips and Tricks
3. Ending Guide
4. List of Commodities

## Introduction

Thank you once again for purchasing Let's Explore Geography! Canadian Commodities Trader Simulation Exercise. This Teacher's Guide and Solution Manual contains valuable information that can be used to more effectively incorporate this activity into your curriculum.

If you have any questions about this document, or if you encounter any technical issues with the activity, please contact Duodecima Edu-tainment Technical Solutions Associate Carter Sande at carter.sande@duodecima.technology.

## Tips and Tricks

- Remember to get some sleep every night! A tired driver is a dangerous driver.
- If you ever forget what's in your truck, use the arrows at the top of the screen to switch to the Inventory.
- You'll automatically stop at any important city. If the game asks you if you'd like to take an exit, you won't be able to trade commodities there.
- A map showing every city and highway in the game is included in the download package. If you ever get lost, use the map!
- In the long run, it doesn't really matter whether you stay in a motel or a hotel.
- A good strategy for trading is to keep track of the commodity prices in every city you visit. If someone wants to buy something from you for $10,000, and someone in a different city can sell it to you for $5,000, that's a great pair of trades to make!
- If you're really, really having trouble turning a profit, the List of Commodities can tell you the price of every commodity you can buy/sell in every city.
- The first bilingual geocaching tour in Atlantic Canada is located in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

## Ending Guide

Let's Explore Geography! includes several different endings students can obtain depending on their choices during the activity:

### Neutral Ending

Last 30 days without obtaining any other ending, and end the game with a cash balance less than $1,020,000.

### Good Ending

End the game after 30 days with at least $1,020,000 cash.

### Short-Selling Master

End the game after 30 days with less than $50,000 total asset value.

### Bankruptcy

Visit a hotel with a negative bank balance. (Note that you are unable to make commodities transactions if you don't have the required cash, so the easiest way to obtain this ending is to spend almost all of your money on commodities, then spend the rest at gas stations and hotels.)

### Second Thoughts

Start a new game and immediately return home.

### A Change in Pace

Stay in the same hotel several times in succession, without doing anything else in between.

### Impaired Driving

Drive your truck for too long without sleeping. (The first time a player does this, they are pulled over by the police and receive a fine. If they do this a second time, the game ends.)

### Stolen Truck

Run out of fuel while tired and attempt to walk down the highway looking for a gas station.

### Iqaluit

Do the geocaching tour in Fredericton. Visit the Bear Necessities in High Level. Head to Inuvik and drive to the Arctic Circle.

## List of Commodities

aluminum | Buy in Saguenay for $6417 | Sell in Banff for $6174 Sell in Channel-Port aux Basques for $5516 Sell in Dawson for $6448 Sell in Edmonton for $6522 Sell in Flin Flon for $7240 Sell in Fort St. John for $7635 Sell in Grande Prairie for $7383 Sell in Red Deer for $7243 Sell in Swift Current for $7253 Sell in Watson Lake for $7294
amethysts | Buy in Thunder Bay for $67000 | Sell in Halifax for $68234 Sell in Lethbridge for $53681 Sell in Lloydminster for $77645 Sell in Vancouver for $76186 Sell in Watson Lake for $76078
antennas | Buy in Fredericton for $5254 | Sell in Corner Brook for $4885 Sell in Prince George for $4331 Sell in Québec City for $5594
birdseed | Buy in Lethbridge for $866 | Sell in Fort St. John for $979 Sell in Kelowna for $873
canola | Buy in Yorkton for $1168 | Sell in Calgary for $950 Sell in Labrador City for $1127 Sell in Montréal for $1325 Sell in Windsor for $967
coal | Buy in Cranbrook or Vancouver for $287 | Sell in Brandon for $258 Sell in Lloydminster for $333 Sell in Ottawa for $286 Sell in Québec City for $314
copper | Buy in Kamloops for $23350 | Sell in Saskatoon for $19397 Sell in Sault Ste. Marie for $23980 Sell in Sydney for $27883 Sell in Thunder Bay for $24799
diamonds | Buy in Yellowknife for $30000000 | Sell in Bathurst for $27138184 Sell in Lloydminster for $31414751 Sell in Saskatoon for $24598683 Sell in Sydney for $28242875 Sell in Winnipeg for $33587573 Sell in Yarmouth for $24131313
engines | Buy in Windsor for $32000 | Sell in Saint John for $33467 Sell in Whitehorse for $26156
flakeboard | Buy in Fort St. John or High Level for $1133 | Sell in Dawson for $1135 Sell in Grande Prairie for $1337 Sell in Labrador City for $1170 Sell in Ottawa for $1042 Sell in Prince Rupert for $1213
gold | Buy in Dawson or Val-d'Or for $200000 | Sell in Channel-Port aux Basques for $204871 Sell in Regina for $162948 Sell in St. John's for $239955 Sell in Yellowknife for $197439
grain | Buy in Brandon or Grande Prairie or Red Deer or Whitehorse for $257 | Sell in Charlottetown for $277 Sell in Cranbrook for $301 Sell in Flin Flon for $283 Sell in Halifax for $256 Sell in Sudbury for $273
grass | Buy in Moncton for $420000 | Sell in Calgary for $420779 Sell in Fredericton for $356171 Sell in Inuvik for $370026 Sell in Swift Current for $448633
iron | Buy in Labrador City for $77 | Sell in Gander for $65 Sell in Moncton for $88 Sell in Prince Rupert for $91 Sell in Sudbury for $71 Sell in Victoria for $90 Sell in Whitehorse for $81
leather | Buy in Swift Current for $5739 | Sell in Corner Brook for $6545 Sell in Gander for $5108 Sell in Lethbridge for $6834 Sell in Yarmouth for $6244
limestone | Buy in Halifax for $71 | Sell in High Level for $70 Sell in Timmins for $72
lobster | Buy in Yarmouth for $40000 | Sell in Cranbrook for $35116 Sell in Grand Rapids for $45485 Sell in Kelowna for $42200 Sell in Sydney for $37407 Sell in Val-d'Or for $42198
loonies | Buy in Winnipeg for $125000 | Sell in Moncton for $125000 Sell in Yellowknife for $125000
lumber | Buy in Victoria or Watson Lake or Williams Lake for $531 | Sell in Kamloops for $584 Sell in Québec City for $561
mackerel | Buy in Channel-Port aux Basques for $4565 | Sell in Banff for $4705 Sell in Dawson for $5430 Sell in La Ronge for $4506 Sell in Montréal for $4171 Sell in Ottawa for $4062 Sell in Saint John for $4889 Sell in Toronto for $4120
magnets | Buy in Gander for $45720 | Sell in Edmonton for $47253 Sell in Winnipeg for $47687 Sell in Yorkton for $50621
nickel | Buy in Sudbury or Thompson for $59710 | Sell in Calgary for $71069 Sell in Corner Brook for $69380 Sell in Gander for $53598 Sell in Kamloops for $63380 Sell in Prince George for $51336 Sell in St. John's for $63470 Sell in Vancouver for $66763 Sell in Whitehorse for $64898
oil | Buy in Calgary or Edmonton or Lloydminster or St. John's for $1091 | Sell in Brandon for $1173 Sell in Moncton for $1219 Sell in Saguenay for $1081 Sell in Yellowknife for $1108
paper | Buy in Corner Brook or Québec City for $1630 | Sell in Bathurst for $1741 Sell in Flin Flon for $1702 Sell in Fredericton for $1465 Sell in Halifax for $1478 Sell in Labrador City for $1647 Sell in Thompson for $1547 Sell in Victoria for $1529
pike | Buy in Inuvik for $47050 | Sell in Charlottetown for $55233 Sell in Edmonton for $39358 Sell in Saint John for $51132 Sell in St. John's for $52028 Sell in Val-d'Or for $51224
potash | Buy in Regina for $570 | Sell in Grand Rapids for $584 Sell in Thompson for $656 Sell in Timmins for $493 Sell in Williams Lake for $682
raisins | Buy in Kelowna for $1540 | Sell in Banff for $1816 Sell in Channel-Port aux Basques for $1397 Sell in High Level for $1294 Sell in Red Deer for $1657 Sell in Regina for $1787 Sell in Winnipeg for $1839
rice | Buy in La Ronge for $1102 | Sell in Bathurst for $1174 Sell in Kelowna for $1181 Sell in Toronto for $1232 Sell in Williams Lake for $1180 Sell in Yarmouth for $1143 Sell in Yorkton for $1277
salmon | Buy in Prince Rupert for $145400 | Sell in La Ronge for $152343 Sell in Lethbridge for $128190 Sell in Thompson for $150515
saskatoons | Buy in Saskatoon for $23640 | Sell in Inuvik for $21775 Sell in Regina for $25974 Sell in Sault Ste. Marie for $27680 Sell in Swift Current for $26838
shirts | Buy in Banff for $6480 | Sell in Sudbury for $6948 Sell in Vancouver for $6359 Sell in Windsor for $5566
snowglobes | Buy in Toronto for $20980 | Sell in Fort St. John for $24688 Sell in Grande Prairie for $24235 Sell in Timmins for $19921
steel | Buy in Sault Ste. Marie or Sydney for $2486 | Sell in Grand Rapids for $2949 Sell in Prince George for $2465 Sell in Thunder Bay for $2619
sulphur | Buy in Prince George for $800 | Sell in Brandon for $738 Sell in High Level for $886 Sell in Red Deer for $796 Sell in Sault Ste. Marie for $832 Sell in Thunder Bay for $883
telephones | Buy in Ottawa for $31080 | Sell in Saguenay for $32052 Sell in Windsor for $36357
tissues | Buy in Saint John for $800 | Sell in Cranbrook for $824 Sell in Fredericton for $853 Sell in Victoria for $737 Sell in Watson Lake for $855
videogames | Buy in Montréal for $73200 | Sell in Charlottetown for $86965 Sell in Kamloops for $81106 Sell in Toronto for $87176 Sell in Val-d'Or for $81702
walleye | Buy in Grand Rapids for $115900 | Sell in Prince Rupert for $116788 Sell in Williams Lake for $121767
wigs | Buy in Charlottetown for $42050 | Sell in Saguenay for $41688 Sell in Yorkton for $42312
zinc | Buy in Bathurst or Flin Flon or Timmins for $6104 | Sell in Inuvik for $7130 Sell in La Ronge for $5067 Sell in Montréal for $5031 Sell in Saskatoon for $7022