Grades 6-8, 9-12
Grade 9-12
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On-Demand Webinar
2023 Winter Economics Bootcamp: Microeconomics Afternoon Session with Amanda Stiglbauer
Time: 180 mins,
Presenter: Amanda Stiglbauer
Objective
In this webinar, teachers will be able to:
- Distinguish the characteristics of the four major market structures and learn activities to help students understand the relevance of this topic.
- Explain the importance of establishing institutions like private property rights, entrepreneurship, rule of law, and markets and apply these institutions to countries around the world.
- Examine how specialization and comparative advantage provide the basis for trade.
Standards
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Description
In this webinar, participants will use the latest EdTech Tools, current events, and fun activities to teach market structures – perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition – the economic institutions of capitalism, and the basis for trade through specialization and comparative advantage. Participants will leave with resources they can readily use in their classrooms this spring!
Resources
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