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Essential Learning: Economics Domain
September upload 2009
In this final upload for 2009 there are more activities based on the skill of data collection, hypotheses and cost-benefit analysis. And if you are looking for some assessment tasks then there are plenty of those for Level 5 and Level 6. Three Financial Literacy tasks and a couple of Work tasks too. Google News is a good ICT tool for helping students focus on newspaper Internet searches.
- Economic Issues - What are the current economic conditions in Australia and have they changed in the last five years? [Word file]
- Economic Issues - Each decade is different – the 1950s were different to the 1980s and the 1980s were different to today. [Word file]
- Hypothesis – Computers and the Internet [Word file]
- Cost Benefit – My wool is organic [Word file]
- Economic Costs and Opportunity Cost [Word file]
- Revision Activity – Who is who, what is what? [PDF file]
- Assessment Task – Levels 5 and 6 – FAQ [Word file]
- Assessment Task – Level 5 – Choices and being an informed consumer [Word file]
- Assessment Task – Level 6 – Cartoons on the Internet [Word file]
- Assessment Task – Level 6 – Demand, Supply, Price – but not always! [Word file]
- Let them drink sugar [Word file]
- Financial Literacy – Students’ Choice Awards [PDF file]
- Financial Literacy – Resources for Barter and the functions of money, with an activity on Gold [Word file]
- Financial Literacy – Assessment Task – Level 6 – Steve Martin video clip and Money [Word file]
- Work – The jobs of the future are not the jobs of today. The jobs of today are not the jobs of yesterday [Word file]
- Work – Assessment Task – Level 6 – Job, Work and Career Advice [Word file]
- Google News – what is it and how can I use it in my classroom? [Word file]
Compak supplement, Issue 4, 2009
- A different type of exam (ECOCIT409_1, issue 4, October 2009) Word or PDF
- Self-assessment and peer feedback (ECOCIT409_2, issue 4, October 2009) Word or PDF
- Introduction to economics test (ECOCIT409_3, issue 4, October 2009) Word or PDF
- Australian Government test (ECOCIT409_4, issue 4, October 2009) Word or PDF