Inquiry Questions:
Why are there trade-offs associated with making decisions?
WALT:
The choices we make or consider as a consumer and how this impacts on resources and other stakeholders.
WILF:
All:
Students will identify some factors that influence consumer decisions and describes the short-term and/or long-term impacts on some of the stakeholders.
Most:
Describes factors that influence consumer decisions and the short-term and long-term impacts on a range of stakeholders.
Some:
Explains factors that influence consumer decisions and predicts the short-term and long-term impacts on all stakeholders.
Why are there trade-offs associated with making decisions?
WALT:
The choices we make or consider as a consumer and how this impacts on resources and other stakeholders.
WILF:
All:
Students will identify some factors that influence consumer decisions and describes the short-term and/or long-term impacts on some of the stakeholders.
Most:
Describes factors that influence consumer decisions and the short-term and long-term impacts on a range of stakeholders.
Some:
Explains factors that influence consumer decisions and predicts the short-term and long-term impacts on all stakeholders.
What makes a GOOD LIFE?
Titles to be included in your Venn Diagram are...
India comparing Australia.
You are making comparison of their resources, medical aid, tasks or chores, food, education etc
India comparing Australia.
You are making comparison of their resources, medical aid, tasks or chores, food, education etc
During Reading
What does the author say people want?
What does the author say people want?
- None of this bothered Riley. None of what?
- Why wasn’t Riley bothered about all this?
- What was Riley’s life like?
- Why was he happy?
- What are people mainly concerned with?
- What is the problem with people?
- In what areas are they dissatisfied?
- Is it true that people… want to be everywhere?
- According to this book why do people get depressed?
- What is one of the silly things about life?
- What’s really, really sad?
- How can this be remedied, however?
- How does the text read?
- Look at the language used in this book and talk about it.
- Find portions that you found humorous and state why you chose these particular parts.
- What is the tone of the story?
- What type of story is it?
After Reading
What are the main things in life?
Activity-
In your own words using the information you gathered from the Kids4Kids video and ideas from The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley. Write a summary in your own words of what are the makings of a happy life.
Can I change the way I live to respond to poverty?
Will there be more poverty as the population increases?
Living with less this lesson raises some ideas about over-consumption and how we might respond to poverty by using less resources and embracing simpler lifestyle choices. Why simplicity? Many people see the idea of consciously consuming fewer resources as a practical way of responding to the problems of poverty. Living more simply provides the potential for fairer distribution of resources, as those who have access to more material wealth may choose to live with less and give money and time to projects that help alleviate poverty. It also provides a practical way of reducing unnecessary waste and environmental damage – and as climate change has impacts beyond our own circumstances and poor communities are often the most vulnerable, taking personal action about climate change can have global implications. Simple living can have other spin-offs too – some people experience an amount of personal satisfaction from seeking to live with less, and depending on the lifestyle decisions people make, simple living practices can help people build more meaningful relationships with those around them
What are the main things in life?
- How can they be attained?
- What does happiness consist of for you?
- Is it difficult to be happy?
- Discuss wants and needs and the difference between these.
- Do they think that people living in poverty are able to have a good life?
Activity-
In your own words using the information you gathered from the Kids4Kids video and ideas from The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley. Write a summary in your own words of what are the makings of a happy life.
Can I change the way I live to respond to poverty?
Will there be more poverty as the population increases?
Living with less this lesson raises some ideas about over-consumption and how we might respond to poverty by using less resources and embracing simpler lifestyle choices. Why simplicity? Many people see the idea of consciously consuming fewer resources as a practical way of responding to the problems of poverty. Living more simply provides the potential for fairer distribution of resources, as those who have access to more material wealth may choose to live with less and give money and time to projects that help alleviate poverty. It also provides a practical way of reducing unnecessary waste and environmental damage – and as climate change has impacts beyond our own circumstances and poor communities are often the most vulnerable, taking personal action about climate change can have global implications. Simple living can have other spin-offs too – some people experience an amount of personal satisfaction from seeking to live with less, and depending on the lifestyle decisions people make, simple living practices can help people build more meaningful relationships with those around them
Rating Scale Activity
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Things to consider...
Need or Want?
Let us discuss
Remember to justify your response!
- Having lots of money
- Being healthy
- Having great toys, bikes or skateboards
- Having fashionable clothes
- Being famous
- Having jobs for adults
- Having friends and family who love and help you
- Having clean water and toilets
- Being able to make choices about what happens in your life
- Having a safe place to live
- Having TVs, computers and other electronic stuff
- A government that helps if you need it
- Getting an education
Need or Want?
- Make a decision about how necessary each item is for you to have a good life. In your groups place each card along the Good Life Road, a line marked on the ground with ends marked
- ‘Very important’ and ‘Not important at all’.
- The cards should be positioned according to how important you think the item on the card is to having a good life.
- For example, if the group thinks the item on the card is vital to having a good life they should place it at the ‘Very important’ end, or if they think it is not important they should place it at the ‘Not important at all’ end.
- You can also place cards at any point in between.
Let us discuss
Remember to justify your response!
Trade-off and Opportunity Costs
Let us investigate what it is and the implications of the consumer.
Let us investigate what it is and the implications of the consumer.
The idea of trade offs, that for an action their is a reaction... There is a scarcity of resources, when one choice is made, the next best alternative is not available (trade-off) (for example, if you choose to spend your time (resource) riding their bike after school, they cannot go for a swim (trade-off)
Goods and Services-link to trade-offs
You need to be able to define what a 'good' and what a 'service is. You also need to understand what your role is as a consumer of goods and services.
You need to be able to define what a 'good' and what a 'service is. You also need to understand what your role is as a consumer of goods and services.
Key Economic Terms (Tier 3)
Create a Power Point, Keynote or a poster explaining the key economic terms. You will need to include definition and visual representations. Also include the implication on the consume of the term.
Barter -
Trading a good or service directly for another good or service, without using money or credit.
Capital Resources -
Resources made and used to produce and distribute goods and services; examples include tools, machinery and buildings
Consumers-
People who use goods and services to satisfy their personal needs and not for resale or in the production of other goods and services.
Goods-
Tangible objects that satisfy economic wants.
Human Resources-
The health, education, experience, training, skills and values of people. Also known as human capital.
Natural Resources-
"Gifts of nature" that can be used to produce goods and services; for example, oceans, air, mineral deposits, virgin forests and actual fields of land. When investments are made to improve fields of land or other natural resources, those resources become, in part, capital resources. Also known as land.
Producers-
People and firms that use resources to make goods and services.
Resources-
The basic kinds of resources used to produce goods and services: land or natural resources, human resources (including labor and entrepreneurship), and capital.
Services-
Activities performed by people, firms or government agencies to satisfy economic wants.
Create a Power Point, Keynote or a poster explaining the key economic terms. You will need to include definition and visual representations. Also include the implication on the consume of the term.
Barter -
Trading a good or service directly for another good or service, without using money or credit.
Capital Resources -
Resources made and used to produce and distribute goods and services; examples include tools, machinery and buildings
Consumers-
People who use goods and services to satisfy their personal needs and not for resale or in the production of other goods and services.
Goods-
Tangible objects that satisfy economic wants.
Human Resources-
The health, education, experience, training, skills and values of people. Also known as human capital.
Natural Resources-
"Gifts of nature" that can be used to produce goods and services; for example, oceans, air, mineral deposits, virgin forests and actual fields of land. When investments are made to improve fields of land or other natural resources, those resources become, in part, capital resources. Also known as land.
Producers-
People and firms that use resources to make goods and services.
Resources-
The basic kinds of resources used to produce goods and services: land or natural resources, human resources (including labor and entrepreneurship), and capital.
Services-
Activities performed by people, firms or government agencies to satisfy economic wants.
Activity-
Brainstorm everything you have consumed today. This means, what things have you needed, used or eaten today from the moment you woke up to right now?”
Brainstorm everything you have consumed today. This means, what things have you needed, used or eaten today from the moment you woke up to right now?”
People buy, use, and exchange goods and services. A good is a physical item that can be bought, touched, and used. A service is the action done for people who pay for the service.
Think, pair share... categorise the following into goods and services
Next Step:
Using your consumer brainstorm, highlight all the GOODS in one colour and the SERVICES in another colour.”
Next Lesson - Go to Mrs Delios old website and continue from
Producers and Resources
Think, pair share... categorise the following into goods and services
- Flowers
- Paint
- Baker making cookies
- Car
- Doctor giving a shot
Next Step:
Using your consumer brainstorm, highlight all the GOODS in one colour and the SERVICES in another colour.”
Next Lesson - Go to Mrs Delios old website and continue from
Producers and Resources