Economics · Week 8 · Business, Competition, and Labor

Competition and Quality

Analyzing how competition affects price and quality and distinguishing healthy competition from rivalry that damages relationships.

Relationship skillsGrade 12About 20 minutesGrade 12, one semester

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Students will: Students analyze how competition lowers prices and improves quality, and calculate buyers' savings in a smoothie market.
SEL skill: Listen to a partner and respond respectfully while comparing ideas
What it looks like: Students practice cooperating and communicating respectfully while comparing healthy competition with harmful rivalry.
Content focus: Competition and quality
Format: Group roles share

Relationship skills

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Standards

12.2.7: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 12: Principles of Economics (standard 12.2, item 7)
CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST2 Analyze how change happens at different rates at different times, and how it affects values and beliefs as well as technology and politics. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
C3 Framework (national): D2.Eco.5.9-12 Describe the consequences of competition in specific markets.
Literacy in history: RH.11-12.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

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