Complete the Summer Survey. Answer the Question of the Day. Review syllabus and website in Teams. Watch What Is School For? Learning Targets: I understand the course objectives. I know where to find the lesson plans and assignments for this course.
Question of the Day: How much does a lack of financial knowledge cost Americans annually (in $)? Discuss answers to the questions below. What emotional reactions do you have when thinking or talking about money? So far, who specifically have you learned the most from about managing money? What is the first thing […]
Listen to the essay, How To Do What You Love, by Paul Graham. Complete the Do What You Love assignment in Teams. Learning Targets: -I can define work according to Paul Graham. -I understand that constraints give our life shape.
Read Exploring Business – Chapter 1.2. Play Kahoot. Learning Targets: I understand the main participants in a business are its owners, employees, and customers. I understand that businesses are influenced by such external factors as the economy, government, consumer trends, and public pressure to act as good corporate citizens. I can list the five functional areas […]
Question of the Day: What is the average tip for full-service, quick-service, and delivery meals? Read this article on what you value and fill in the table on the whiteboard with the effects on money habits you can relate to for each life value. Take the Life Value Quiz to determine what your prominent life […]
Read Exploring Business – Chapter 1.3. Watch video on Economic Systems of the World. Complete the What Is Economics? assignment in Teams. Learning Targets: I can define economics. I understand the three questions Economists address: (1) What goods and services should be produced to meet consumer needs? (2) How should they be produced, and who […]
Watch this video on FOMO: Our Relationship with Social Media. What is behavioral economics? The study of how irrational factors affect individual’s economic decisions Discuss the questions below. Describe a time FOMO has influenced a financial decision of yours. Were you happy with the decision? Sam regularly uses social media and posts to his accounts […]
Review yesterday’s lesson by answering the questions below. Behavioral economics… a. Is a field of economics that studies people who make rational and objective decisions b. Analyzes how different economies around the world behave over time c. Tracks and examines stock market trends over a certain period of time d. Combines economics and psychology to […]
Read Exploring Business – Chapter 1.4. Watch video on Perfect Competition. Play Kahoot. Learning Targets: I understand that in a free market system, buyers and sellers interact in a market to set prices. I can define perfect competition. I can discuss supply and demand as it relates to perfect competition. I understand that the equilibrium […]
Read Exploring Business – Chapter 1.5. Watch video on Oligopolies and Monopolistic Competition. Watch video on Monopolistic Competition and Profit. Complete the Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Monopoly assignment in Teams. Learning Targets: I can contrast the four types of competition in a free market system: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. I can distinguish […]
