Grades 9-12
Publication
Grade 9-12
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Lesson
Decision Making
Objective
Students will be able to:
- Explain how scarcity affects economic choices.
- Describe the five-step decision-making model.
- Use a decision-making grid to make informed choices.
In this personal finance lesson, students will use a five-step model to learn about decision making.
Book Info
This lesson is part of Financial Fitness for Life 9-12, 3rd Edition and provides the slides and activities with educational technology tools. For full access to the book, shop the teacher guide and student workbook below.
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Description
This lesson introduces a process of reasoning that is often referred to as the economic way of thinking. The process is summarized in The Handy Dandy Guide, a six-point primer on economic reasoning. Using the Handy Dandy Guide, the students analyze two situations and apply the economic way of thinking.
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