| Aug 24 |
Mon |
Attendance & brief introductions; Course Outline overview; Questions |
First day |
| Aug 25 |
Tue |
Questions; Join WeChat group; Review Course Outline; Unit 1: Economic Foundations intro; HTML interactive activity (sent via WeChat); Student Handout distributed |
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| Aug 26 |
Wed |
Review the 3 big economic questions, scarcity, and opportunity cost; Complete handout sections 1, 2 & 3; Read & translate Law of Diminishing Returns and Economic Efficiency |
Formative assessment tomorrow |
| Aug 27 |
Thu |
Quiz: 3 big questions, scarcity, opportunity cost (formative — not graded); Complete sections 4 & 5 (Diminishing Returns & Economic Efficiency — read, translate, vocabulary list) |
Formative quiz |
| Aug 28 |
Fri |
Guest Speaker — Dominick; Case Study: Opportunity Cost, Scarce Resources, Diminishing Returns, Allocation Efficiency |
Guest speaker |
| Aug 30 |
Sun |
Review: opportunity cost, factors of production, scarcity, 3 economic questions, efficiency, diminishing returns; Case Study — Lean Production at Boeing: read, translate, vocabulary list, answer questions 1–4, share answers, submit before leaving |
Quiz on sections 5 & 6 tomorrow |
| Sep 1 |
Tue |
Quiz: diminishing returns & economic efficiency; Complete all sections of Unit 1 Economic Concepts (study guide for test) |
Unit 1 Test tomorrow; Economic Principles Project due Thursday |
| Sep 2 |
Wed |
Unit 1 Test; Introduction to Economic Principles Project; Turn in Unit 1 Student Handout |
Project presentations Sep 7; Unit 2 coming next |
| Sep 3 |
Thu |
Work on Economic Principles Poster & Presentation |
Due Sep 7 |
| Sep 4 |
Fri |
Work on Economic Principles Poster & Presentation; If finished early: go to Unit 2, read & translate first 4 sections, create vocabulary list |
Due Sep 7 |
| Sep 7 |
Mon |
Presentations — Economic Principles — be ready to present |
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| Sep 8 |
Tue |
Case Study — Airbnb — complete in class and turn in at the end of class today (case instructions are also posted in Projects/Case Studies) |
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