Our world has become more interconnected than at any time in human
history. This course develops student understanding of our national and global market economies and how people and nations are directly and indirectly affected by these market systems. As students develop their abilities to identify, analyze, and evaluate essential economic principles, they will be able to examine the importance of living in an interdependent national and global economy.
Economics 8th Grade
This class meets every other day either on an A Day or B Day.
There is no homework associated with this class.
Susan Reider
[email protected] • 410-313-5022
Course Description
Our world has become more interconnected than at any time in human history. This course develops student understanding of our nationa and global market economies and how people and nations are directly and indirectly affected by these market systems. As students develop their abilities to identify, analyze, and evaluate essential economic principles, they will be able to examine the importance of living in an interdependent national and global economy.
Materials Needed
One subject notebook
Writing implement
Grading Policy
Daily Classwork 50%
Tests/Projects 40%
Participation 10%
Grading Scale
A 90-100%
B 80-89%
C 70-79%
D 60-69%
E 59% or below
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Weeks 7-9
● Research the economic issues of a family from 1800present day from an economist perspective, looking specifically at the concepts that were taught previously. Create two polit cartoons, one that identifie the economic factors th contributed to the collaps the economy during the Great Migration and a seco cartoon that suggests measures that should/coul have been taken before or during that time to prevent t crisis.
This class meets every other day either on an A Day or B Day.
There is no homework associated with this class.
Susan Reider
[email protected] • 410-313-5022
Course Description
Our world has become more interconnected than at any time in human history. This course develops student understanding of our nationa and global market economies and how people and nations are directly and indirectly affected by these market systems. As students develop their abilities to identify, analyze, and evaluate essential economic principles, they will be able to examine the importance of living in an interdependent national and global economy.
Materials Needed
One subject notebook
Writing implement
Grading Policy
Daily Classwork 50%
Tests/Projects 40%
Participation 10%
Grading Scale
A 90-100%
B 80-89%
C 70-79%
D 60-69%
E 59% or below
Week 1
- Getting Started
- Define Economics
- The American Dream
- Economic Systems
- Economic Way of Thinking
Week 2
- Factors of Production
- Types of Resources
- Supply and Demand
Week 3
- Consumer Decision Making
- Scarcity
- Allocation
- Globalization/Trade
Week 4
- Developing nations
- Characteristics of world economies
Week 5
- Saving
- Opportunity Costs
- Comparative Advantage
- Stocks
Week 6
- Money
- Cash or credit
- Wants and needs
Weeks 7-9
● Research the economic issues of a family from 1800present day from an economist perspective, looking specifically at the concepts that were taught previously. Create two polit cartoons, one that identifie the economic factors th contributed to the collaps the economy during the Great Migration and a seco cartoon that suggests measures that should/coul have been taken before or during that time to prevent t crisis.
- Investigation of consumer producer choices, supply/demand/pricing choices and issues, national and global economic crises, and how economic health influences the actual health of a natio people.
- Use of primary and second sources to analyze essenti concepts.
- Application of essential concepts in small and large real world settings.