Introduction to Economic Systems

Focus Question:
- What is an economy/economic system?

Today we began an in-depth look at Globalization that will likely take us to the end of the year. First, we'll be looking at how students' possessions help link them to people around the globe. As a first step toward that, the focus of today's class was a simulation in which students had to make a product using paper in about 15 minutes. Students were very creative, which led us to the question of how we were going to distribute the wonderful products that they made. This led to a discussion of the three basic questions that every economic system must answer.

Out of Class Work
1) Complete a draft of your 13 ways poem for tomorrow (try for at least 7 stanzas)
2) C Block: Finish your blog post answering the following questions:

  • What did you learn today about economic systems?
  • HOW did you learn about economic systems?
  • What questions do you still have about economic systems?
3) Finish your "So much depends upon.." video for Friday. The how-to videos on how to create a video in WeVideo are still on the Google Classroom.


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