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Description
Focus: High School Economics serves to highlight the key economic concepts students need to succeed in the real world. This revised edition features simulations, role plays, small-group discussions, and other active-learning instructional activities to help students explore economic concepts through real-life applications including simulating an oil market, valuing education, and paying at the pump.
Covered topics include:
- economic growth
- financial institutions
- intermediaries
- scarcity and choice
- supply, demand, price
- price elasticity
- standard of living
Each lesson features teaching procedures, background information, current data on public policy issues, and assessment activities.
