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Lesson Plans - Rich, Poor, or Somewhere in the Middle. Grades 6-8 Overview: This lesson offers students an opportunity to use economic and social indicators to identify the connection between a country's access to resources and its economic development.

Lesson Plans - Rich, Poor, or Somewhere in the Middle

Connections to the Curriculum: Geography, social studies Connections to the National Geography Standards: Standard 16: "The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources" Time: Two to three hours Materials Required: Statistics on the international distribution of important natural resources (available in printed or online almanacs) Atlases with a variety of thematic maps. Mrscalverley - home. Economy.

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JA Titan Simulation Home Page. Price Elasticity: From Tires to Toothpicks. Price elasticity of demand measures changes in the quantity demanded when prices change.

Price Elasticity: From Tires to Toothpicks

Some goods are very elastic and others are very inelastic. NOTE: The example in the student version is about on person's decision regarding price changes and a price change might not affect a group in the same way. For example, if 3 people shared a pizza, a $3 increase would only be a $1 per person in crease and might not affect their decision. Quantity Demanded: This website provides an explanation of quantity demanded.www.amosweb.com/cgi-bin/awb_nav.pl Price Elasticity of Demand: The price elasticity of various goods has been measured by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.www.mackinac.org/article.aspx? ID=1247 Comparing Gasoline and Restaurant Meals: This is a fill in the blank worksheet. The price elasticity of demand, a measure of the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a price change, may cause a change in price to have a small or large impact on quantity demanded. Business Studies - BTEC First Award in Business - New 2012 Specification Teacher Resource Course.

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Business Studies - BTEC First Award in Business - New 2012 Specification Teacher Resource Course

Save to Favorites A diary date here for all colleagues teaching the new BTEC First Award in Business specification - Friday 15 June 2012. tutor2u is running a special Teacher Resource CPD course at the amazing Drayton Manor Theme Park designed for colleagues teaching the new specification from September 2012. We’ll look at the new methods of assessment and provide guidance on resourcing and organising the other new units too. We’ll also have some guest speakers from Drayton Manor - a great case study to use for BTEC First. Places are strictly limited and we’re already experiencing heavy demand for places..

Programme Outline Lead presenters / facilitators: Michelle Stephenson Jen Delaney Graham Prior 9.30 – 10.30 Arrival and Registration 10.30 – 11.15 – Getting into Unit 1 – Enterprise in the Business World 11.15 – 11.45 – Unit 4: Insights into Customer Service at a Theme Park 11.45 – 12.00 – Coffee and Refreshments. Lesson Plan: Sources of Economic Growth and Development. Introduction: In order to understand the goals of economic development, it is useful to examine the characteristics of more economically developed countries and compare them to those of less economically developed countries.

Lesson Plan: Sources of Economic Growth and Development

Before beginning the assignment below, watch the following TED Talk by Swedish Professor of world health Hans Rosling: Resources: Use the following websites to find the required data for the assignment below. Part 1 – Development Data: Using the two websites above, locate the following for TWO COUNTRIES, one from the list of countries with “high human development” and one from the list of countries with “low human development”.

Teaching Purchasing Power Parity. This is a simple post about how I have been teaching Purchasing Power Parity in ECON1000 for the last couple of years. 1.

Teaching Purchasing Power Parity

I ask the class for a student volunteer. The student has to come from a country I know next to nothing about, and that has its own currency. Poverty, Inequality and Income Distribution - Lesson Plan. A series of 'off the shelf' lesson plans and resources for use in the classroom.

Poverty, Inequality and Income Distribution - Lesson Plan

These lessons deal with Poverty, Inequality and Income Distribution and are relevant to the following specifications: AQA: Module 5, 14.4 and 14.5Edexcel: Unit 5A and 5BOCR: Unit 2884, 5.4.4. Home. Economic Education Lessons.