Standards for Unemployment Survey Lesson Demo

Standard: 12

Name: Unemployment

Unemployment is when a person is looking for work and cannot find it. Unemployment imposes costs on individuals and the overall economy. Unemployment increases during recessions and decreases during periods of recovery.

• K-5: Elementary school students learn that adults sometimes cannot find jobs.
• 6-8: Middle school students learn how the unemployment rate is calculated.
• 9-12: High school students learn the limitations of the unemployment rate. They also learn some of the potential reasons for unemployment and why the unemployment rate will never be zero.Benchmark Students will know that: Students will use this knowledge to: 12.E.1 Unemployment exists when adults who are looking for work cannot find jobs.Explain why a new college graduate that has not gotten a job is unemployed, but a retired person is not unemployed.E: ELEMENTARY STUDENTS