Citizens should be well informed, responsible consumers. Well informed consumers need a basic understanding of consumer economics, management of personal finances, market systems, the business world, and the principles of advertising.
Big Activity: Would You Buy It?
Students will produce a print advertisement and a video commercial using the techniques and psychology of advertising.
Simulation: Market Day
Students become young entrepreneurs where they will form a small business, manufacture a product, create advertising and then sell their own merchandise at a school market day.