Fairview High School
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Essential Outcomes
CTE
 
English
 
Enrichment
 
Foreign Language
 
Math
 
Science
 
Social Studies
 

 

 

Economics
Essential Outcomes
Fairview High School

Economics

Culture

  • Define each of the economic systems and differentiate between them and how they answer the economic questions faced by cultures.

  • Understand the benefits of the American Free Enterprise System.

Economics

  • Identify the underlying terms and concepts in the course of Economics.

  • Understand demand, shifts of the demand curve, and elasticity of demand.

  • Understand supply, cost of production, and changes in supply.

  • Combine the major economic forces of supply and demand to arrive at price.

  • Learn about gross domestic product and other income and output measures; fluctuations of business cycles, and factors that influence economic growth.

  • Understand the benefits and risks of buying stock, describe how stocks are traded, and identify how stock performance is measured.

Geography

  • Explain the concepts of scarcity, factors of production, and opportunity cost.

Government and Civics

  • Become familiar with financial institutions and services in the Personal Finance Handbook.

History

  • Understand how historical events have influenced the economic development of the United States.

  • Identify major historical events that affected the economic development of the United States.

Individuals, Groups, and Interactions

  • Utilize information in the Personal Finance Handbook by making good decisions on budgeting.

  • Utilize information in the Personal Finance Handbook by making good decisions on banking.

  • Utilize information in the Personal Finance Handbook by making good decisions on saving and investing.

  • Learn characteristics of the four types of market structures: perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly.

  • Learn the purpose, structure, and advantages/disadvantages of the three major types of business organizations: sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.

  • Expand knowledge of business organizations by learning about corporate mergers, multinationals, business franchises, cooperatives, and nonprofit organizations.

  • Learn about economic challenges which include types of unemployment, inflation, and poverty.

  • Analyze the importance of credit and debt in the Personal Finance Handbook.

Work Habits

  • Demonstrate good leadership.

  • Demonstrate good time management.

  • Demonstrate attendance/promptness as expected in professional settings.

  • Demonstrate responsibility.

  • Demonstrate respect for authority figures.

 

 

 

 

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