Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics: Student Activities

by Lopus, Jane S.; Morton, John S.; Reinke, Robert; Schug, Mark C.; Wentworth, Donald R.

• ISBN13: 9781561835164
• ISBN10: 1561835161
• Edition: Student
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-30
• Publisher: National Council on Economic Education

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