Economics · Week 6 · Scarcity, Choice, and Markets

Supply, Demand, and Dates

Charting how a heat wave affects the supply and price of Coachella Valley dates and noticing how students' own stress rises and falls with the demands on their time.

Self-managementGrade 12About 20 minutesGrade 12, one semester

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Students will: Students use a table to show how a heat wave that lowers the supply of dates changes the shortage, surplus, and price.
SEL skill: Choose a coping strategy for a high pressure moment
What it looks like: Students practice noticing stress in a high demand situation and choosing a coping strategy.
Content focus: Supply, demand, and dates
Format: Think write pair share

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Standards

12.2.1: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 12: Principles of Economics (standard 12.2, item 1)
12.2.2: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 12: Principles of Economics (standard 12.2, item 2)
CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST4 Relate current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
C3 Framework (national): D2.Eco.3.9-12 Analyze how incentives influence what is produced and distributed in a market system.
Literacy in history: RH.11-12.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis, such as charts and maps, with information in a text.

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