PERIOD 1 –
Economics
TODAY’S TOPIC –
Supply and Demand Curves
TODAY’S OBJECTIVE –
Students will practice the use of demand curves and supply curves to analyze a situation. They will do this by starting off with a basic supply and demand graph and then moving the curves in the appropriate direction depending on what has happened in a scenario.
TEACHING AGENDA –
Step 1 – Students will first set up a basic supply and demand graph in their papers.
Step 2 – We will watch a 2:30 minute clip from the film “The Hudsucker Proxy”.
Step 3 – As we watch the clip students will move the supply and demand curves in the correct direction.
Step 4 – Students will practice using supply and demand graphs with scenarios created from other students in class.
Step 5 – As a class we will discuss how speaking about prices is like speaking another language.
Step 6 – We will look at the four aspects of prices.
Step 7 – As a class we will look at the three problems in the market known as “Monopolies, Duopolies, and Oligopolies”.
Step 8 – Students will attempt to identify an example of each of these
Step 9 – Students will answer the following five review questions about the material from this chapter.
1. What factors can lead to disequilibrium?
2. How do prices act as a language in the free market?
3. How do computers lower search costs for producers and consumers?
4. How do prices lead to efficient resource allocation?
5.What is the problem with a price floor?
HOMEWORK –
Study the material from today for a quiz tomorrow morning.
STUDENT RESOURCES –
Chapter 6-Balancing the Market
PERIOD 2,3 –
Criminal Behavior
TODAY’S TOPIC –
Evidence
TODAY’S OBJECTIVE –
Students will practice how to piece evidence together by sorting through clues from a murder scene.
TEACHING AGENDA –
Step 1 – Students will be placed into heterogenous groups of 4-5.
Step 2 – Students will be given all the evidence from the murder scene in a clear bag.
Step 3 – Students will sort out the evidence and clues so that each student in the group has the same amount.
Step 4 – Students will have to talk to eachother and piece together what happened.
Step 5 – Once the group has figured out what happened they will begin to write their own murder scenarios. They have to develop the clues and write them line by line.
Step 6 – Once each group has their own scenarios written they will be given to other groups.
Step 7 – The groups will try and solve each others scenarios
HOMEWORK –
Take tonight off. I will begin preparing material for a new unit for us to begin tomorrow.
STUDENT RESOURCES –
