Economics · Week 12 · Business, Competition, and Labor
Work in a Changing Economy
Exploring how automation and global competition change jobs and naming coping strategies for an uncertain future.
- Students will
- Students explain how rapid technological change and international competition alter jobs and the skills workers need, using evidence about change and continuity.
- SEL skill
- Choose and use a calming strategy when thinking about an uncertain future
- What it looks like
- Students practice calming strategies for an uncertain future and name one hopeful next step.
- Content focus
- Work in a changing economy
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management means handling your emotions, thoughts, and actions so you can stay calm, focus, and work toward goals. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 12.4.2: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 12: Principles of Economics (standard 12.4, item 2)
- 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.15.9-12 Explain how globalization affects economic growth, labor markets, rights, the environment, and the distribution of resources and income in different nations.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.9 Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
Fits these textbook chapters
- Econ Alive! The Power to Choose, Chapter 10: Human Capital and the Labor Market
- Econ Alive! The Power to Choose, Chapter 15: The United States and the Global Economy
- Econ Alive! The Power to Choose, Chapter 16: The Costs and Benefits of Globalization
- Economics, Chapter 9: Labor and Wages
- Economics, Chapter 12: Evaluating the Economy
- Economics, Chapter 13: Economic Instability
- Economics: Principles in Action, Chapter 9: Labor
- Economics: Principles in Action, Chapter 18: Development and Globalization
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