Economic Main government Subject specific Students will be able to understand: objectives of the objectives: teacher-led terminology. the principal objectives of government discussion to explain the government policies (maintaining Research skills. four main government full employment, ensuring price objectives and why they Note making. stability, achieving economic growth are desirable. and having a balance of payments) Presentation skills. Teacher-led activity on how that policies used to achieve one pursuit of one objective can objective can lead to a worsening of lead to a worsening of another objective another objective. that there are other government objectives such as reducing Real examples: inequality and managing students can research into environmental change latest figures and/or recent how the pursuit of a government trends for each of the objective can negatively affect government’s objectives. groups of people and conflict with other objectives. Economic growth Diagrammatical Students will be able to understand: GDP: teacher-led activities analysis and on interpreting GDP what is meant by economic growth interpretation of figures, explaining issues and its significance to economies growth rates. such as capita’ and ‘per the difference between GDP and ‘real’. Subject specific real GDP and GDP per capita and terminology. Student activity with simple be able to perform simple calculations of real GDP calculations involving these and GDP per capita from measurements. provided example data. Costs and benefits of growth: teacher-led presentation on the costs
Economic objectives of the government Subject specific terminology. Research skills. Note making. Presentation skills. Students will be able to understand: the principal objectives of government policies (maintaining full employment, ensuring price stability, achieving economic growth and having a balance of payments) that policies used to achieve one objective can lead to a worsening of another objective that there are other government objectives such as reducing inequality and managing environmental change how the pursuit of a government objective can negatively affect groups of people and conflict with other objectives. Main government objectives: teacher-led discussion to explain the four main government objectives and why they are desirable. Teacher-led activity on how pursuit of one objective can lead to a worsening of another objective. Real examples: students can research into latest figures and/or recent trends for each of the government’s objectives. Economic growth Diagrammatical analysis and interpretation of growth rates. Subject specific terminology. Students will be able to understand: what is meant by economic growth and its significance to economies the difference between GDP and real GDP and GDP per capita and be able to perform simple calculations involving these measurements. GDP: teacher-led activities on interpreting GDP figures, explaining issues such as ‘per capita’ and ‘real’. Student activity with simple calculations of real GDP and GDP per capita from provided example data. Costs and benefits of growth: teacher-led presentation on the costs
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