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Unit Title: Choices in Economics

Dates: 5 days

Essential Question(s):
1. How does scarcity determine the
choices that are made in economics?
2. How do limitations on time and
income affect our wants and needs?
3. What risks and returns are
characteristic of entrepreneurship?

Objectives:
1. Define economics,
entrepreneurship, opportunity costs,
and comparative advantage. .
2. Explain the basic problem of
scarcity and the resulting trade-offs that
must be made.
3. Explain and apply the four factors
of production.

Standards:

Activities:

Assessments:

- Syllabus and procedures


- Defining economics group activity
- Economics Themes Bingo
- Google Classroom reading
assignment
- Watch What is Economics?
video
- Read Scarcity poem
- Scarcity narrative
- Opportunity costs youtube videos
- What makes an entrepreneur
activity
- Lebron James lesson

Michigan HSCE
E1 (1.1,1, 1.1.2)
E4 (4.1.1)

Formative - exit slips, comic strip, reading and


activity questions
Summative - Unit 1 quiz

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