WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE THEY THINKING????

FOCUS: GLOBALIZATION

TEXAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION

Laura Ewing/President and CEO 1801 Allen Parkway Houston, TX 77019 713.655.1650 www.economicstexas.org

HOW DO I FIND LESSONS?WWW.ECONOMICSTEXAS.ORG

www.economicstexas.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Carol Trout, Chair Joe Adams (Union Pacific Railroad) John Anderson (Anderson

Foundation) James Cooper (Cooper, Inc) Laura Jaramillo (Wells Fargo) Sherry Kiser (Federal Reserve

Bank of Dallas) RADM Robert Smith III, (TX A & M,

Galveston)

Partial support for this program was also provided to TCEE by the Council for Economic Education as part of the Cooperative Education Exchange Program (CEEP). The CEEP is funded by the United States Department of Education and carried out in coordination with the United States Department of State.

Thanks to CEE

WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE THEY THINKING?

How did geography, history, government, economics and history impact the thinking and actions of humans? The session will provide teachers with economic based lessons on how natural resources, politics, and historical events impacted decision making.

IDEAS THAT CHANGED THE WORLDMIDDLE SCHOOL WORLD GEOGRAPHY

CONCEPTSGeography•Standard of Living•Interaction with the physical environment

Economics•Technological change•Productivity•Capital goods •Human Capital•Standard of living

WHAT IS PRODUCTIVITY? HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=ZR-YQGD9EAA

•What was The Little Red Hen story about?•If it took 8 hours to bake 8 bread loaves, how many can she bake in 1 hour?•8X = 8 X = 1 loaf of bread•Productivity = the amount of good or service a worker can produce in a period of time.

THE HEN BECOMES MORE PRODUCTIVEIf the number of workers remains the same, what is needed to increase productivity?•Technology and capital goodsWhat are the factors of production?•Land or natural resources•Labor•Capital•Entrepreneurship

VISUAL 8.1What happened to the productivity of these products and why?

As production increases, what happens to prices?

What is the impact on standard of living?

PROBLEM SOLVING1. What problem needed to be solved?2. Who came up with a solution?3. What was the solution?4. How did this solution affect productivity?

1. Change in technology?2. New capital good?3. Improve people’s education or health?

5. How did the solution allow people to overcome challenges presented by the physical environment?

6. How did this solution affect people’s stand of living?

7. How did this solution affect people’s quality of life?

FINNISH TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOUNDATION

…”Promote people’s quality of life, are based on human values and encourage sustainable economic development”

Who would you nominate based on 8.3 criteria? Why?Make a poster to present their candidateJudge each other’s nominations with sticky notes

THE CANDIDATES ARE…•Double Bubbler•Barbed Wire •Penicillin•Telephone•Self-Polishing Steel Plow•Dynamite

ASSESSMENTBrainstorm a list of new inventionsChoose one and write a newspaper story and headline about it

Paragraph 1• Who developed the invention?• What does it do or how is it used?• When was it developed?• Where was it developed?• Why was it developed?

•Paragraph 2• How does the invention increase productivity?• How does it change the environment or allow people to

overcome challenges in the environment?• How does it affect the people’s standard of living?• How does it improve the quality of life?

WHY DO PEOPLE MOVE?MIDDLE SCHOOL WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Geography ConceptsMigrationImmigrantsPull FactorsPush Factors

EconomicsCostsBenefitsDecision Making

ENGAGE

1.Have you ever moved?

2.What was (were) the distance(s) of your move(s)?

VISUAL 4.1GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY

What is significant about each figure and why do you think these changes happened?•Figure 1?•Figure 2?•Figure 3?

TERMS•Migration•Immigrants•Emigrants•Benefits•Costs•Push and Pull

COSTS AND BENEFITS?BABYSIT FOR $6.00 FOR UNRULY

KIDS OR BE WITH FRIENDS?

Costs Benefits

PUSH AND PULL FACTORSPUSH PULL

Costs of present location that drive people away

Benefits of new location because it has advantages

“In 2002 the United Nations estimated that around 175 million people, or about 3 % of the world’s population, resided in a country different from their country of birth.”

REASONS FOR MIGRATION1.You will be assigned one card from

Activity 4.1.2.You will answer questions on Activity

4.2.3. Complete the chart based on

reading.Push Factors for Migration

Pull Factors for Migration

AND THE POINT IS?