10 production possibilities
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- Main panel
- Elements
- Title
- Text description of activity
- Production possibilities frontier graph (with four valid drop targets)
- Set of possible corresponding slope values (draggable)
- Elements
- Content
- Short activity description
- Extended activity description
- Activity instructions
- Production possibilities frontier graph
- Set of possible corresponding slope values
- Design assets
- None
- Open questions
In this lesson, students learn the basic economic concepts of trade-off and opportunity cost, and draw a production possibilities frontier to learn the constraints a society faces when deciding what to produce.
The lesson writers are looking for a simple manipulative that teacher can project onto a screen or interactive white board. There is a set of curves available. If they pick the right one, it clicks into place. If they pick the wrong one, it will goes back to the "dock" (for lack of a better term).
From the lesson writer:
For the technology component of this lesson, a production possibilities frontier will be created like the one here. It will be projected on the overhead, and students will have the ability to drag the slopes at the bottom of the page to the proper location on the PPF using a computer mouse or on the smartboard in the front of the room. If the location is correct, the slope will “stick” and remain in place. However, if students place the slope in the wrong location, the slope will move back (“bounce back”) to the original position. While this is a relatively simplistic exercise, it is valuable because it forces students to think about the relative location of slope on the PPF, as well as internalize the idea that the slope along a concave PPF changes due to the changing opportunity cost.
- Labels: drag & drop
- Should this be implemented with a "Home screen" listing of all available exercises or a "forced march" through each?
- Home screen desired. Each problem could be identified by things produced.