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About this blog.

This blog is for the 2014-2015 freshmen citizenship class at Bay View High School in Mr. Dunbeck's sections. Here you will find updates on home work assignments, copies of homework assignments, practice tests, links to videos shown in class, hints for tests and occasional extra credit assignments. Be sure to check this site regularly in order to make sure you are up-to-date on all assignments for this class, especially if you are absent.

While checking this site is optional, though highly recommended, you are REQUIRED to have a copy of the Citizenship textbook. It is also important that you regularly attend class to keep up with lectures, notes, discussion, videos, etc. Find out why you are here.

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Showing posts with label Scarcity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scarcity. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

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.















Tuesday, April 14, 2015

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.