Con Econ Archive F11: 7

Below is an archive of our weekly schedules from this semester.

Week of September 5th

Monday, 9/5

• Labor Day.

Tuesday, 9/6

• Welcome! One year to go! Your senior year will be great!
• Attendance, names, and introductions.
• Birthdays.
• Two truths and a lie: post-graduation plans, work, hobbies, etc.
• My favorite hobby is car repair.
• I have four kids: three sons and a daughter.
• Every summer I visit my wife's family in Seattle.
• Scissors.
• Drawing on experience.
• Stuff to note:
• During the first week of school, if you have a problem with your schedule, please stop by the HUB to fill out a “Request for a Class Change Form” - pink color. You go to the HUB in between periods or at lunch. You should not go to your counselor during class and without an appointment. If you have a blank space on their schedule, report to the HUB during that time and someone from the guidance department will help you.
• Locker problem? Go to C204 before school, during lunch, or after school. Please don't go during class.
• Schedules: You should pay particular attention to the Fall/Spring schedule you received in HR and if there are any discrepancies with Spring courses, you should fill out a schedule change form and turn it in to the Hub, or make an appointment with their Guidance Counselor ASAP.
• The iHelp room will be closed until the computer distribution is complete.
• Safari or OmniWeb are the browsers available to students.
• All students have a Gaggle email account. Use it.
• The process for student printing has changed this school year. You will need to select HS-Student as the printer of choice when at school. Then proceed to any of the following printers, sign in, and print your document. Printers are available in:
  
  • The Hub
  • The Library
  • iHelp Room
  • E118
  • E207
  • Please click on the following link for complete directions: http://umahstmm.wikispaces.com/file/view/studentprinting01.pdf
• Student directions for subscribing to an iCal calendar can be found here.
• The iHelp room is closed during school this week. It is open before and after school.

• Wrap-up of the "Value of Money Quotes" and personal responses.
• Crash landing on the moon: Imagine a time in the future when there are lunar bases. People are living and working on Moon, exploring and learning about it,and doing other kinds of research that can't be done on Earth. On a routine journey from Earth to a lunar base,there is an accident. Something has gone wrong and you crash land on the Moon’s surface,sixty miles from the nearest base. It is daylight on the Moon and will be for the next few days.In the Moon's lower gravity, that is not too far to walk, but you are limited in what you can carry. What should you take with you?
• Individual decisions
• Group decisions

Friday, 9/9

• Any more "value of money" reflections?
• Review of crash landing on the moon.
• You can't have it all. You wanted to take the raft and the radio transceiver. You decided to take the transceiver. What was the cost of your decision?
• Essential Question: What do I gain and lose when I make choices?
• Essential Question: What do I gain and lose by making choices WS:
• Notes ppt:
• Opportunity cost practice
• Finish the in class practice on your own WS (the table on the back).
• Come up with your own examples. Selections of your examples will be posted in on the bulletin board.
• HW due on Monday: Complete the practice table for opportunity cost (on the back of the paper you got in class today).

Week of September 12th

Monday, 9/12

• HW due today: Complete the practice table for opportunity cost (on the back of the paper you got in class on Friday).
• Submit, pair, discuss
• Identify choice, explain rank order of 2nd and 3rd choice, conclude that #2 was opportunity cost.
• Opportunity cost bulletin board.
• Complete two of each of the "opportunity cost" half-sheets for each type of choice (personal, family, government).
• In the top section, identify the choice. Make the example clear and specific. Consider examples of money, time, or other scarce resources.
• In the bottom section:
• Note at least two other options.
• Explain the rank order of your three options (your choice plus the two other options).
• Conclude that your #2 was the opportunity cost of your choice because that was the second best alternative.
• Note: For the government choice, you will need to make up reasonable choices for the rank order (since we can't really create a rank order for a whole country).
• Put your name on the back of each one. Please be neat--they will be hung up on the bulletin board. Your responses will be scored.
• HW due tomorrow: Complete four "opportunity choice" sheets (half-sheets of paper with prompts on them). Two of them are "personal choices." Two are "family choices."

Tuesday, 9/13

• Open house tonight.
• Course info
• Syllabus:
• Classroom procedures: Food, bathroom, computers, moving around, working with others. Be present (physically and mentally), work together, be curious.
• Grade system
• Due today (if you haven't submitted already): The value of money responses.
• Return value of money responses. Explain grade and opportunity to resubmit.
• Money is not valuable. It is a way for us to meet our wants and needs. We don't want money. We want what money can buy. From your responses, you seem to want money to buy "stuff" (goods and services) and you also have friends and family as a high priority. Keep in mind that we sometimes give up time with friends and family in order to earn money--that's a choice we make and an opportunity cost.

• Opportunity cost bulletin board
• Submit personal and family choices/opportunity cost explanations.
• Discuss government
• Due tomorrow: Government choice and opportunity cost explanations.

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• Computers:
• iCal (http://calendar.umasd.org/)
• Quia (LastFirst566)
• Using the wiki and blog
• Organizing folders and notes on your computer.
• Computer information
• Your Gaggle email account should be up and running.
• The process for student printing has changed this school year. You will need to select HS-Student as the printer of choice when at school. Then proceed to any of the following printers, sign in, and print your document. Printers are available in:
  
  • The Hub
  • The Library
  • iHelp Room
  • E118
  • E207
  • Please click on the following link for complete directions: http://umahstmm.wikispaces.com/file/view/studentprinting01.pdf
• Student directions for subscribing to an iCal calendar can be found here.
• The iHelp room is open during the day now. You must have a pass to go there.
• Notes on "factors of production."
• Land
• Labor
• Physical capital
• Human capital
• 
• HW for tomorrow: Be ready to name and define the four factors of production.
• Complete your own example of the factors of production in a good or service that you have experience with at work (or tech or somewhere). Clearly identify what the good or service is then list at least three factors of production for each category (land, labor, physical capital, human capital). Be specific so there can be no mistake that you understand what each factor is and no one can argue that you mixed up an example. This assignment is scored and should be completed by the start of class on Friday.

Friday, 9/16

• Factors of production quiz on Quia. Username: FirstLast566. Twelve questions.
• Factors of Production Assessment
• Sign up for products (one good and one service) for factors of production blog entry.
• Use this template:
• Paste your final work onto the two blogs: one for goods and one for services.

Week of September 19th

Monday, 9/19

• Factors of production quiz on Quia. Username: FirstLast566. Twelve questions. (To be completed: SB, MH, DJ, BT)
• Factors of production examples (Name, good, service)
• Ricky, A&W Root Beer, sculpting
• Maddie, peanut butter fudge sundae, ice cream worker
• TJ, Propel, salesman (be more specific about what kind of sales)
• Brian, strawberry cake, wait service
• Phil, hot dog, maid service
• Tashawn, computer, computer tech
• Derek, ice skates, hockey player
• Dion, tattoo gun, tattoo artist
• Mike, cookie, cook (be more specific about what kind of cooking--what are you making?)
• Mary Kate, brownies, party attendant
• Patty, book, librarian
• Mirang, shoes, mechanic (car?)
• Joe, frying pan, serving eggs
• Branden, pizza, pizzeria worker
• Ashley, baby food, haircut
• Dakota ??????
• Steven ??????

Tuesday, 9/20

• Due tomorrow: Factors of Production assessment WS. Hand in via the Robot.
• Essential Question: Where do I fit into the economic system? To understand where you fit into the economic system, you must first understand the system. This week we will explore factors of production (the "stuff" that goes into the products we make and buy) and three types of economic systems. Lastly, we will locate ourselves in our mixed economy.
• Introduction to three types of economies: Free-market, command, and mixed.
• Three questions all economies answer: What to produce? How to produce it? Who gets it?
• Diagram of the free-market economy.

• Introducing famous entrepreneurs project
• Initial task:
• Introduce project
• Sign up for entrepreneur
• Introduce library resources
• Tomorrow: Use the library resources. Find at least two meaningful articles that help answer the questions for the project. PDF the articles and save them to your Consumer Economics folder. Read the articles. Take notes on paper as your read.
• Resources:
• Gale Biography in Context
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• World Book
• Sirs Knowledge Source

Friday, 9/23

• New seats.
• Finish diagram.
• Practice: Where am I located in the economy?
• Three types of economies: Free-market, command, mixed.
• Entrepreneur projects.

Week of September 26th

Monday, 9/26

• Finish "Where am I in the economic system" practice WS.
• Practice questions (in Quia) for test for the Essential Question: Where do I fit into the economic system. The test will be on Wednesday.
• Remember, the two key questions to help you identify where you are in the economy:
• Who is involved? (Government or private?)
• What is being bought/sold? (Product or factor?)
• Here are some notes from last week:

Tuesday, 9/27

• Introducing famous entrepreneurs project.
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• Work on notes
• Resources:
• Gale Biography in Context
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• World Book
• Sirs Knowledge Source

Friday, 9/30

• Work on Entrepreneur projects.
• Entrepreneur project presentations to be presented on Tuesday.