Grade 9-12, Higher Education
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Economic Fundamentals: 6 Common Sense Principles

Time: 60 mins,
Presenter: Tawni Ferrarini
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Objective

In this webinar, teachers will be able to:

  • Utilize economic concepts to integrate within various grades 9-12 disciplines and undergraduate survey courses
  • Provide students with an economic tool bag of 6 basic economic principles to explain their and others’ behaviors

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Concepts

Goods and Services, Incentives, Income, Opportunity Cost, Scarcity, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

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Description

Explore six common sense economic concepts and identify valuable resources to bring into courses. This webinar will provide real-world examples that demonstrate to students the power of the economic way of thinking and how to use it to live more satisfying lives.

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