Sugars

May 1st, 2015

Learning Objective: Students will understand the true cost of sugar.

Success Criteria: Students can explain what they have learned about the food industry.
 

Today we will watch a John Oliver segment on sugar in your food.  Your job is to listen & raise your hand if you'd like to discuss or ask a question.  

State Standard Communication C1: Communicating using styles for appropriate purpose.

Food, Inc. Day 2

April 28th, 2015

Warm Up

What are 3 things that you learned, surprised, or shocked you from yesterday?

Today will will be continuing watching Food, Inc. to learn more about the food we eat, and our power as consumers.

ACT Aspire Testing (5th Period Only)

Welcome.

Please take a seat with no one next to you.

Place everything except a pen or pencil under your desk.

DO NOT LOG INTO THE CHROMEBOOKS.

Cellphones must be turned off and remain off for the entire test.













You will by using the Test NAV feature do not switch away from this screen.

When you are finished shut down the chromebooks.  Sadly the ACT Corporation will not allow you to play our review games, listen to music, or play on your phone when you are finished.

You must be quiet for the entire test.

This test will last 60 minutes.

Food, Inc & Consumer Sovereignty

April 27th, 2015

Warm Up

What is consumer sovereignty?

Learning Objective: Students will better understand their role as consumers.

Success Criteria: Students can use economic concepts to explain their impact on the economy.









This week we will be watching Food, Inc. to get a better look at how our food is made and understand how we have control over it.

Please fill out the handout given to you in class as you watch the film and keep them in your group folders throughout the week.  DO NOT TAKE THEM HOME.

If you don't answer the critical thinking questions, the best you can receive is a BASIC on this assignment.


 

Zondle Update

Greetings all,

As we have finished our Intro to Econ Unit the Econ Basics question sets have been "unset" meaning you can't earn Dun-Bucks for them anymore.  

However, you can play a new question set "General Civics Knowledge" to earn Dun-Bucks and check your general knowledge for Civics Facts.

In Solidarity,

Mr. Dunbeck

Test Day

April 24th, 2015

No Warm Up

Test Today

Reminder you can make purchase that benefit the test today.

10% Test boost = 4,500 Dun-Bucks

3 free multiple choice/1 free short answer = 3,000 Dun-Bucks

New pencil = 300 Dun-Bucks

Eraser cap = 100 Dun-Bucks

Review Day

April 22nd, 2015

Warm Up

How can you use consumer sovereignty to change the way companies act?

















Today is a review day, we will be using Zondle to review for our test tomorrow.  We will be using the following sets of questions:


Basic Econ Vocab 1
Basic Econ Vocab 2
Basic Econ Review

Bottled Water Scam & Consumer Sovereignty

Capitalism & Consumer Sovereignty

April 21st, 2015

Warm Up

Explain how your family fits into the circular flow of economic activity.

Learning Objective:  Students will understand their role in answering the 3 basic questions every economic system must be able to solve for.

Success Criteria:   Students can explain how consumer sovereignty and the profit motive shape our economy.

Notes are strongly encouraged.

Today's lesson is about how to use an app called Buycott to fully use our ability to shape the economy through the use of consumer sovereignty.

To be on target to complete our packets for the test, you should take your packets home today and complete the review page on page 13 and anything else you still need to finish.

Packets are due Friday.

Circular Flow of Economic Activity

April 20th, 2015

Warm Up

1. What does money store?
2. Why can't we just print more money whenever we want to?

Learning Objective: Students will understand the circular flow of economic activity.

Success Criteria: Students can explain how the economy grows.

Circular Flow of Economic Activity

For more detail read Chapter 19 Section 2: Economic Activity

To be on target to complete our packets for the test, you should have pages 11 & 12 completed by the end of class.

Goods v. Services, Batrering & Money

April 17th, 2015

Warm Up

Define the following words.

factors of production

labor

market

Learning Objective: Students will understand the benefits of currency.

Success Criteria: Students will be able to explain what makes good currency, what its true value is, and the benefits to its use in our economic system.

We will not be working on our packets today.  Note taking is encouraged.

Chapter 19 Vocabulary Day

April 16th, 2015

Warm Up

1. What is an opportunity cost?

2. If someone has a choice between buying soda for $1 or juice for $1 what will their choice tell us?

Learning Objective: Students will preview new vocabulary words.

Success Criteria: Students can define basic economic vocabulary words.

We will be using Zondle to learn new words through trial and error.  As you play write down the definitions on page 9 & 10 of your packet.  

Once you finish page 9 of your packet, use these words to fill in the blanks on page 10 of your packet.

You will be using "Basic Econ Vocab 2" today.

To be on target to complete our packets for the test, you should have pages 9 & 10 completed by the end of class.

Economic Decision Making

April 15th, 2015

Warm Up

What is scarcity, and what are the 3 economic questions that it creates?












Learning Objective: Students will understand how economic decisions are made.

Success Criteria: Students can explain the concepts of cost-benefit analysis,opportunity cost, and what these decisions tell us about people and a society.

Scarcity

April 14th, 2015

Warm Up

What is the difference between a want and a need?  Give 2 examples of each.














Learning Objective: Students will understand the problems associated with scarcity.

Success Criteria: Students can explain how our economic system tries to solve for the problems of scarcity.

To be on target to complete your packet in time for the test, you should complete pages 5 & 6 by the end of today.  Chapter 18 Section 1: How Economics Works will assist you with this.

Economics begins today!

April 13th, 2015

No warm up today.

Welcome Back!!!!

Learning Objective: Students will preview vocabulary words necessary to gain a successful understanding of economics.

Success Criteria: Students can define basic economic vocabulary words.












Today we begin our study of economics, the study of how our society decides the three big questions every society must answer:

1. What do we make?
2. How do we make it?
3. Who gets what is made?

In order to begin, we must have an understanding of some basic words.  We will be using Zondle to learn these words through trial and error.  As you play write down the definitions on page 3 of your packet.  Eight of the eleven words in today's game are on page 3, the other words will show up later in our unit, don't worry about those right now.

Once you finish page 3 of your packet, use these words to fill in the blanks on page 4 of your packet.

You will be using "Basic Econ Vocab 1" today.

To be on target to complete our packets for the test, you should have pages 3 & 4 completed by the end of class.

Zondle Updated

April 7th, 2015

Sorry for the delay, Zondle games are now updated and ready to go to help you preview the vocabulary for our new unit that we will be starting once we return to school next week.

With this unit we will be starting our units on Economics (the study of how we make decisions about what to make, how to make it, and who it goes to).

Enjoy the rest of your Spring Break and happy gaming!

Student Choice Class Discussion Day

April 2nd, 2015

No Warm Up

News: Youth Empowered in the Struggle will be having it's weekly city-wide meeting today after school to discuss the laws our State Government is trying to pass that could shut down our school and other MPS schools forcing us to kick everyone (students and teachers) out and sell it to a private school.  For more information see Mr. Dunbeck.

Learning Objective: Students will direct their own educational experience.

Success Criteria: Students can thoughtfully discuss important modern issues.

Today your class will be in charge of what we learn.  You have a choice between 3 topics that we as a class will vote on.  We will watch and discuss the video that gets the most votes.  

Your options are:

Puerto Rico, Guam, & American Somoa are part of the United States?

Money for Schools & the Lottery

Poor v. Rich in America

Zondle Games Update

Congratulations to our top 10!

1. Dwonya Gibbs (2nd Period)
2. Alex Torres (4th Period)
3. Ravianna Johnson (4th Period)
4. Javon Smith (5th Period)
5. Angel Jones (2nd Period)
6. Linda Scott (4th Period)
7. Francisco Cortes-Turjano (5th Period)
8. Chikya Joseph (5th Period)
9. Daizhun Thurman (2nd Period)
10. Joshua Williams (5th Period)

Games have been "unset" meaning you can still play them, but will not earn Dun-Bucks for them until they are reset for you all a couple weeks before finals start.  

However, over Spring Break, you will have a chance to play vocabulary games to preview words for our new unit.  Those games will be up Friday or Saturday this week.  Until them, take a breathe and re-group!

In Solidarity,

Mr. Dunbeck