2020 NOTE: Each of these pages is offered as a supporting, supplemental resource for material already taught in the class. Each of the steps and assignments posted to this page are optional, and not graded (unless you are using this page to make up a related assignment that was assigned BEFORE school was cancelled due to COVID-19.
1. Wait, what are some of these Big Ideas?
2. WATCH THIS: What is a Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) - and how does it graphically demonstrate several Big Ideas of Economics? |
3. WATCH THIS: Which factors (or improvements) can shift the PPC curve, so that we can increase the total production of a nation? |
4. READ THIS (Khan Academy Lesson Summary): Opportunity Cost & the PPC
This reading does a great job of summarizing the main overall ideas, as well as getting specific about how the PPC reveals opportunity cost. The link also connects you to a series of videos by Sal Khan about the PPC, which you can optionally explore if you want to know more.
5. COMPLETE THIS: Demonstration Google Doc Assignment from the Economics Classroom site
After you click the link to the Google Doc assignment (click "Complete This" or the image to the left to go there), click "Make a copy." Then you can use what you learned from the videos and Khan Academy written summary above to answer the questions as completely as you can.
When you are finished, submit it to JupiterEd. |
REVIEW CONCEPTS AND VOCABULARY FROM THE INTRO TO ECON UNIT WITH QUIZLET |
IF YOU WERE ABSENT . . .
1. Log in to JupiterEd and click on "Quex 1: Factors of Production and Big Ideas." Work through all 10 questions (which are review from Day 1 of class), until you have them all correct. Be sure to press "Turn In Now" to get full 4/4 credit in the Process category.
2. Watch the videos from ACDC Economics that are provided on this page, above. The first video explains what a PPC is and how it works. Pause the video and try to answer the questions he poses in the video. The 2nd video explains how a PPC can shift, making MORE production possible (or less), under certain circumstances. Again, pause the video when he says and attempt to answer the questions, then check your answers when he goes over them. (NOTE: Both videos have super short instances where the volume gets loud, so set your headphone/earbud volume to the lowest level where you can hear him speak).
3. Read this Khan Academy summary of the PPC and what we can learn from it. This will help you complete the makeup assignment and be more prepared for the first written test (for which you will have to graph and interpret a PPC).
4. Click on this Google Doc makeup assignment and make a copy for yourself. Put your name on it when you are finished and submit it to JupiterEd (Feb. 8 assignment), OR print it out and turn it in to the wire basket up front at the start of class.
5. Log in to JupiterEd: Click "Grades" tab, then click on assignment titled "Feb 8: Letter to Hausman, plus Lego PPC graph." It should let you submit your Google Doc assignment. Let me know if something goes wrong.
2. Watch the videos from ACDC Economics that are provided on this page, above. The first video explains what a PPC is and how it works. Pause the video and try to answer the questions he poses in the video. The 2nd video explains how a PPC can shift, making MORE production possible (or less), under certain circumstances. Again, pause the video when he says and attempt to answer the questions, then check your answers when he goes over them. (NOTE: Both videos have super short instances where the volume gets loud, so set your headphone/earbud volume to the lowest level where you can hear him speak).
3. Read this Khan Academy summary of the PPC and what we can learn from it. This will help you complete the makeup assignment and be more prepared for the first written test (for which you will have to graph and interpret a PPC).
4. Click on this Google Doc makeup assignment and make a copy for yourself. Put your name on it when you are finished and submit it to JupiterEd (Feb. 8 assignment), OR print it out and turn it in to the wire basket up front at the start of class.
5. Log in to JupiterEd: Click "Grades" tab, then click on assignment titled "Feb 8: Letter to Hausman, plus Lego PPC graph." It should let you submit your Google Doc assignment. Let me know if something goes wrong.