Welcome to the Parkview Economics Discussion Board
All postings titles will be marked by the school month and school week and due date. So this is the first week posting for month 6, and the title is 6.1.....
You are required to make 2 posts on the discussion board every week. The first post is your response to the questions posted. The work is to be your own, plagiarism will result in a failing grade. The second response is a comment to a classmate's post.
Due date: Discussion Board responses are due by Friday of the week of the posting.
Grades: PLEASE COPY YOUR POSTS AND TURN IN WITH YOUR MONTHLY WORK. Discussion Board participation is 10% of your grade. You will get credit for your participation and will be marked down for posting late, or not posting at all.
Study Guide: Each discussion board question is related to a question on the final. Students who complete each posting do better on the final. A more detailed study guide will be provided a few weeks before the final.
Finals: The finals will be multiple choice questions based on the textbook and discussion board.
This week you will have an opportunity to meet classmates and discover your economic literacy. In your first posting, write a paragraph or two that answers these questions:
- What is your name, grade, and age?
- What are some hobbies or activities you're involved in?
- Define economics in your own words?
- Why are you interested in studying economics?
- Now take the economic quiz and answer the questions related to the quiz.
As you read other students' responses, respond to one or more of these questions in your follow-up posting(s):
- What interests you most about studying economics?
- Do you think studying economics is relevant today? Explain your answer.
- Do you think economics is important in your life? Give examples.
Economic Literacy Quiz
How much economic knowledge do you have?
Directions: Test your own economic literacy with 20 questions.Then view results to see how you rank against everyone else who has taken the quiz. Post your answers to the following questions below the quiz link.
1. Did you score above or below the national average of 70%? Post your answer to this question.
2. What experience do you have with economics?
3. What would you like to learn more about regarding economics in this class?
My name is Ian Pierra. I am in 12th grade and I'm 17 years old. An activity that I am involved in is soccer which you could say is my favorite hobby to help pass any time. I would say that Economics in my own words is basically how people work, how they build certain jobs, and how everything is paid off. I am interested in studying Economics just because I feel that it will be very valuable knowledge for me to have for whatever career I pursue in college and the future.
ReplyDeleteI ended up scoring below the national average and got 65% which wasn't too far away. In all honesty, I really have had no experience with economics before this and rarely even knew what the true definition of it was as well. What I would like to learn more about regarding economics in this class is how investments and interests work with banks and businesses including the function of the stock market, and also how money fluctuates throughout certain time periods, especially in America. Lastly, to answer one of the three questions that were asked for the follow up posting after taking the quiz, I will say that studying economics is still very relevant today especially because of new advancements in technology and how that can change the structure of how economics is even taught in the future too.