Fukui Entrance Social Studies case studies
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The Fukui Prefecture High School Entrance Examination in Social Studies (福井県立高等学校入学者選抜 社会) is the social studies component of the entrance selection process for Fukui Prefectural high schools. It is taken by students completing compulsory education in Fukui who wish to enter a prefectural high school, and it is also relevant to applicants from outside the prefecture and to returnee or international applicants where the prefecture's rules allow. The Fukui Entrance Social Studies case studies are 5 cases and about 3,404 words.
1Which Site Gets the Bus? A Two-Day Survey of the Kuzuryu River
A third-year class of 32 students at a junior high school in Echizen City has two weekdays in late October for a field survey. The theme is "how the Kuzuryu River links the mountains to the Sea of Japan." The class can use the hired bus on one day only, at a cost of 32,000 yen; the total budget is 40,000 yen, and everyone must be back at school by 16:00.
728 words, about 4 min2Two Accounts of a Wakasa Manor: What Can the Club Actually Claim?
A history club at a school in Obama is preparing a display about a manor (shōen) in Wakasa Province. The club has three kinds of material.
694 words, about 3 min3Explaining a Silk Boom and Bust in Meiji and Showa Fukui
Four students are investigating why silk weaving grew so quickly in Fukui Prefecture in the Meiji period and then collapsed. From prefectural statistics they record the following approximate yearly output of habutae silk: 1877, 3,000 tan; 1890, 120,000 tan; 1905, 400,000 tan; 1929, 900,000 tan; 1932, 260,000 tan.
622 words, about 3 min4A Supermarket, an Access Road and a Shrinking Town
The town of Asahi (population 19,000, of whom 38% are 65 or older) has one bus route with five round trips a day. A supermarket chain wants to build a store on farmland 2 km from the town centre, next to a bypass, and asks the town to build an access road costing about 480 million yen.
685 words, about 3 min5A Zero-Waste Proposal and 1,900 Tonnes of Plastic
A third-year class in a coastal city in Fukui Prefecture is preparing a proposal for the city's "zero-waste" policy. The city produces about 8,400 tonnes of household and business waste a year, of which about 1,900 tonnes is plastic.
675 words, about 3 min