How does television affect our economy?

Grade 10
Content
Area

Thematic
Question

Centers (Activities)

Economic
s

What are the

differences
between
Macro-, Micro-,
and Consumer
economics?
How does
television affect
GDP? How
does the
television/cable
industry affect
you and New
Mexico?

Students will presenting

their findings by creating
5-6 slide PowerPoint
(including a title slide and
a reference slide) Students
also will create a
persuasive argument on
why television investment
could be a positive or
negative idea in a 1-2 page
paper. Students will also
participate in a group
discussion. Websites will
be given for help and also
a rubric

Technology
Integration
(References,
Software and/or
Resources)
I will be integrating
laptops for the
students to research on
using google or Bing
on only educational
websites. I will also
have them utilize
Microsoft Word and
PowerPoint. Also, I
will be providing them
a projector to present
their PowerPoint.

Assessment
and/or
Rubric
Scale

Student Products or
Portfolio

NM Content
Standards with
Benchmarks
(Specific)

Peer
evaluations
and also a
basic
teacher
rubric
grading for
the essay
and its
content.

Students will create a

PowerPoint
presenting their
findings and utilize
educational or
government websites
to research on like,
http://arts.gov/news
or http://www.ipl.org/
and create a
persuasive argument
on why television
investment could be a
positive or negative
idea in a 1-2 page
paper. Students will
also participate in a
group discussion in
class. By doing this
you will learn basic
economic principles
stated in the
standards and
benchmarks.

9-12 Benchmark 4-A:

analyze the ways
individuals,
households,
businesses,
governments and
societies make
decisions, are
influenced by
incentives
(economic and
intrinsic) and the
availability and use of
scarce resources, and
that their choices
involve costs and
varying ways of
allocating:
8. Describe
and analyze the three
major divisions of
economics: macro-,
micro- and consumer;