Demonstrate the important economic principles of the production possibilities curve, including how to calculate opportunity cost and graph curves by using a table or calculation. Learners use a variety of methods, including videos, worksheets, readings, and a few hands-on activities to reinforce the economics concepts.

Concepts

opportunity cost, economics, scarcity, goods and services, macroeconomics, microeconomics

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Differentiate for English learners by enabling captions on the YouTube videos

Classroom Considerations

• Interactive activity requires pupils to fill out teacher and personal information; the program emails teachers the scholar's results
• The link to the worksheet and teacher key works, but only under the Resource List section, not the Process section

Pros

• Includes an assessment to test comprehension of the concepts
• Incorporates an activity that actively teaches the concepts while also engaging high schoolers and allowing them to learn by doing

Cons

Common Core

RH.9-10.7 RH.11-12.7