11/20 Economic Systems - main ideas

Whenever you need help, please ask for it.

Please write your homework in your assignment book.
Please review the goal and agenda for the day which is posted in the classroom.

Today in class you will 

• show that you have a sense of what the three basic economic systems are through pictures, words, and symbolism.

Why?

• To develop your understanding of basic economic concepts.
• To describe how different economic systems try to answer the basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.

(Just like you did with the previous sketchnote, create a new post for your blog.

• Use the Insert Image tool in the toolbar to take a picture of your sketchnote with the webcam.
• Give it a meaningful title.
• Include the following labels (productivity tip-you can copy and paste them):  social studies, economy, economic system, sketchnotes)

1.  Read through these notes from the other day. And look through this linked slide show from the other day.  Ask those around you to clarify areas of weakness.  8 minutes

2.  Write at least three main ideas you can glean about EACH economic system from the notes you just reviewed.  10 minutes

3.  Investigate World Toilet Day - What is it all about?   8 minutes

4.  Class discussion  10 minutes

5.  15 minutes Being mindful of shape, size, and location, accurately draw and label the continents and oceans as a map of the world(you may refer to an atlas/book).  Include the following.

• Equator (also label)
• Prime Meridian (also label)
• North America
• South America
• Europe
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia
• Antarctica
• Atlantic Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• compass rose (also label)

11/19 Economic Systems Sketchnotes

Whenever you need help, please ask for it.

Please write your homework in your assignment book.
Please review the goal and agenda for the day which is posted in the classroom.

Today in class you will 

• show that you have a sense of what the three basic economic systems are through pictures, words, and symbolism.

Why?

• To develop your understanding of basic economic concepts.
• To describe how different economic systems try to answer the basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.

1.  Read through these notes from the other day. And look through this linked slide show from the other day.  Ask those around you to clarify areas of weakness.  8 minutes

2.  Draw it out: create Sketchnotes for the economic systems   30 minutes

• remember to have it organized in some manner, including a title
• draw words in a way to get across their meanings
• draw other images and symbols to get across meaning - bounce ideas off of those around you, but make your own work original
• add color - colored pencil boxes on bottom shelf under counter

3.  Just like you did with the previous sketchnote, create a new post for your blog.  5 minutes

• Use the Insert Image tool in the toolbar to take a picture of your sketchnote with the webcam.
• Give it a meaningful title.
• Include the following labels (productivity tip-you can copy and paste them):  social studies, economy, economic system, sketchnotes

4.  If you didn't finish interpreting maps and turning in the work yesterday in Google Classroom, finish and turn it in (you've noted that to finish is homework as you had oodles of time in class).

5. Being mindful of shape, size, and location, accurately draw and label the continents and oceans as a map of the world(you may refer to an atlas/book).  Include the following.

• Equator (also label)
• Prime Meridian (also label)
• North America
• South America
• Europe
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia
• Antarctica
• Atlantic Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• compass rose (also label)

Parents
You could ask your child the following: 

• What are the basic economic systems?
• What is each like?

**BONUS**

• What are the three basic economic questions economic systems answer?
• What is the purpose of sketchnotes?