Economic & Entrepreneurship (2000): Grades 10, 11, 12

Other Utah CTE sets

• Creative Coding: Grades 6-8 (2023)
• College and Career Awareness
• Digital Literacy: Grades 7-8 (2023)
• Exploring Technology
• Grade 7 -- College & Career Awareness
• Grade 8-12 -- FACS Exploration
• Baking & Pastry (2020): Grades 9-12
• Child Development
• Child Development (2023-)
• Engineering Technology
• Food and Nutrition (2023): Grades 9-12
• Basic Digital Photography
• Business Communication 1: Grades 10-12 (2022)
• Computer Systems 1 (2023)
• Early Childhood Education 1 (2023-)
• Early Childhood Education 2 (2023-)
• Marketing 1: Grades 10-12 (2021)
• Medical Anatomy and Physiology: Grades 10-12 (2018)
• Early Childhood Education 3 (2023-)
• Exercise Science/Sports Medicine: Grades 11-12 (2022)
• General Financial Literacy (2015): Grades 11, 12
• Grades 9-10 -- Teen Living

<ul><li>Identify examples of natural, human, and capital resources</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain environmental problems existing in three different countries and the economic impact</li></ul>

<ul><li>Locate historical and/or current regions where examples of the word=s major economic systems can be found, i.e., traditional, market, mixed market, command.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Use natural resources and population density maps to predict the potential economic activity of a region.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain how major economic indicators such as gross national product, unemployment, stock market, and consumer price index reflect the interaction among nations.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain the impact of a current environmental issue.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Identify and compare examples of U.S. taxation throughout different historical periods with the current policies.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain the role of the Invisible hand and the profit motive in redirecting self-interested behavior toward serving the public interest.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Cite examples of how the philosophy of capitalism has impacted attitudes toward private property, private enterprise, and freedom of choice.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Illustrate the relationship between households, firms, government, and the international sector using the concept of the circular flow of economics</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain how free enterprise answers the basic economic questions of what, how, when, and for whom goods and services are produced.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain the operation of supply and demand in the mixed-market economy of the United States</li></ul>

<ul><li>Compare and contrast the ways in which cultural variation within and among societies helps to increase differences in the economic value of resources.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain how change in personal life situations helps to shape personal economic decisions.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Give examples of consumer behavior responding to increased and decreased interest rate changes</li></ul>

<ul><li>Compare and contrast the ways in which government economic policies both impede and promote economic growth within society.</li></ul>

<ul><li>List and describe the primary factors of production.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Evaluate the trade-offs involved in alternative uses of resources using the production possibilities curve.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Identify the principal elements of scarcity in the context of unlimited wants and limited resources.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain opportunity cost, cost/benefit, and margin.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the four types of market structures; i.e., pure monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, pure competition.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain the relationship between financial institutions and the federal reserve system in the creation and control of the money supply.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Compare and contrast the basic forms of business ownership</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain the role of entrepreneurs in organizing and allocating economic resources.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Identify and discuss major economic indicators; e.g., gross national product, inflation, unemployment, price indexes, stock and bond market indexes.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Describe the nature and causes of business cycles.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain the relationship between saving, investment, and economic growth.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain the relationship among sustainable economic growth, environmental issues, and other social goals</li></ul>

<ul><li>Organize resources and time efficiently</li></ul>

<ul><li>Analyze the influence of economic institutions and mass communication on an individual's perception of the world.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Listen with respect to the ideas and views of others.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Demonstrate the ability to resolve conflicts positively.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Explain how the major groups in a capitalist economy are independent entrepreneurs, workers, and consumers.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Respect and defend individual rights and property.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Demonstrate individual economic responsibility.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Recognize how individual economic choices and actions affect self, family, and community.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Analyze the causes, effects, strengths, and problems of the free enterprise system.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Analyze historical and contemporary examples in which individuals demonstrated respect and support for the rights, responsibilities, and dignity of all people.</li></ul>