Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics: Student Activities,9781561835164

Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics: Student Activities

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Edition: Student
ISBN13: 9781561835164
ISBN10: 1561835161
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-07-30
Publisher(s): National Council on Economic Education
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Table of Contents

Unit 1 The Economic Way of Thinking
Lesson 1
Activity 1 Why Are We a Nation of Couch Potatoes?
3(4)
Lesson 2
Activity 1 Which Examples Illustrate Scarcity?
7(1)
Activity 2 Are People Treating Scarce Resources as Scarce?
8(1)
Lesson 3
Activity 1 Survival
9(2)
Lesson 4
Activity 1 Alternatives and Choices
11(1)
Lesson 5
Activity 1 Quiz
12(2)
Activity 2 First Answer Sheet
14(1)
Activity 3 Second Answer Sheet
15(1)
Activity 4 How Rules Influence Economic Activity
16(3)
Unit 2 The Invisible Hand at Work
Lesson 6
Activity 1 Why Did Communism Collapse?
19(1)
Lesson 7
Activity 1 How to Play a Silver Market
20(1)
Activity 2 Student Score Sheet for a Silver Market
21(1)
Activity 3 Supply and Demand Schedules for Silver
22(2)
Lesson 9
Activity 1 How Many Hours Are You Willing to Work?
24(1)
Activity 2 The Amazing Farmer Jones
25(1)
Lesson 10
Activity 1 Equilibrium Prices and Equilibrium Quantities
26(2)
Lesson 11
Activity 1 Do Prices Matter to Consumers?
28(2)
Lesson 12
Activity 1 Picturing and Calculating Elasticity
30(1)
Lesson 13
Activity 1 I, Pencil
31(3)
Activity 2 How Markets Allocate Resources
34(2)
Lesson 14
Activity 1 What Will Happen If?
36(3)
Unit 3 How You Can Prosper in a Market Economy
Lesson 15
Activity 1 Why Do Some People Earn More than Others?
39(2)
Lesson 16
Activity 1 Making Choices about Saving and Investing
41(2)
Lesson 17
Activity 1 Financial Planning Document
43(2)
Lesson 18
Activity 1 Buying on Credit
45(3)
Lesson 19
Activity 1 What Will People Be Doing in 2010?
48(2)
Activity 2 Who Are the Entrepreneurs?
50(5)
Unit 4 The Business of Doing Business
Lesson 20
Activity 1 A Visit with Adam Smith
55(4)
Lesson 21
Activity 1 Diminishing Marginal Returns and the Demand for Labor
59(1)
Lesson 22
Activity 1 Examples of Four Models of Market Structure
60(2)
Activity 2 Characteristics of Four Market Structures
62(1)
Lesson 23
Activity 1 Andrea's Software Business
63(1)
Activity 2 Andrea's Software Business: Do the Math
64(3)
Unit 5 The Visible Hand: The Role of Government in a Market Economy
Lesson 24
Activity 1 Externalities: How Actions Affect Others
67(1)
Activity 2 The Vanishing Wildlife Mystery
68(2)
Lesson 25
Activity 1 The Economics of the U.S. Constitution
70(3)
Activity 2 An Examination of the Economic Features of the U.S. Constitution
73(1)
Lesson 26
Activity 1 Public versus Private Goods
74(2)
Lesson 27
Activity 1 The Economics of Special Interest Groups
76(2)
Lesson 29
Activity 1 What Is a Fair Tax?
78(1)
Activity 2 The National Commission of Taxation Makes Its Annual Forecasts
79(4)
Unit 6 The Macroeconomy
Lesson 31
Activity 1 Solving the Labor Market Mystery
83(2)
Lesson 32
Activity 1 Living With Inflation in the Former Soviet Union
85(4)
Lesson 35
Activity 1 Fiscal Policy: A Two-Act Play
89(2)
Lesson 37
Activity 1 Analyzing Diverse Viewpoints: Understanding Why Economists Disagree
91(1)
Activity 2 Listening in on a Discussion of Economists
92(3)
Activity 3 Sorting through Macroeconomic Theories
95(1)
Lesson 38
Activity 1 Introducing Aggregate Demand
96(1)
Activity 2 Introducing Aggregate Supply
97(1)
Activity 3 The Effects of Shifts in Aggregate Demand and Supply
98(1)
Activity 4 Economist for a Day
99(4)
Unit 7 Markets Without Borders: The Global Economy
Lesson 39
Activity 1 Solving the Mystery of the Global Economy
103(2)
Lesson 41
Activity 1 Why People and Nations Trade
105(2)
Activity 2 Why Do People Buy Foreign Goods?
107(1)
Activity 3 The Home-Building Mystery
108(2)
Lesson 42
Activity 1 Foreign Currencies and Foreign Exchange
110(1)
Lesson 43
Activity 1 Rich Nation / Poor Nation
111(1)
Lesson 44
Activity 1 Environmental Case Studies
112(2)
Activity 2 Environmental Policies
114(1)
Lesson 45
Activity 1 Measuring Trade across Borders
115(2)
Activity 2 How to Calculate the Current Account
117(1)
Activity 3 U.S. Balance of Payments, 2000
118(1)
Glossary 119

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