ECONOMICS

Grades 7 & 8

Grade 7 & 8 students will have the opportunity to study Consumer Economics. The goal of Consumer Economics is to improve the financial literacy of middle school students by engaging in real-world, project-based performance tasks. This course incorporates innovative, web-based assessment practices that support the school and District initiative to provide a solid foundation of finance language and skills through the exploration of personal finance, the stock market, and entrepreneurship. Students will engage in activities to develop their understanding of wants versus needs, supply and demand, cost-benefit analysis, and virtual investment research and management of a $100,000 portfolio by means of a stock market simulator competition. Classroom content is enhanced through the use of community resources.

All classes are paperless, incorporating 1-to-1 Chromebooks and Google Drive. Students will create and maintain a digital portfolio in their Google Drive throughout the course. There will be online, formative assessments with the use of applications such as Socrative and Google Forms, as well as web-based content assessments through the Council for Economic Education and Everfi.