EconoBites

Welcome to EconoBites. These a 'bite sized' items that you can use with your students. The emphasis is on applications of Economics to current situations or events that are relevant to the syllabus content for a particular year.

Year 5 and Year 6 Economics and Business

Building a bridge: This Year 5 'bite' talks about the economics of the new Matagarup Bridge over the Swan River to the Perth Stadium.

Year 5 - Building a bridge

Year 7 Economics and Business

Social Entrepreneurs : This Year 7 'bite' gets students investigating the entrepreneurial characteristics of young Australian social entrepreneurs who started Orange Sky Laundry and Pollinate Energy.
Year 7 - Social Entrepreneurs

Year 8 Economics and Business

Panama disease and banana prices: This Year 8 'bite' aims to relate a commonly used example of the operation of the market to a current ‘real world’ situation.
Year 8 - Panama disease and banana prices

Bushfires and pome fruit prices: This Year 8 'bite' aims to relate a commonly used example of the operation of the market to a current ‘real world’ situation.
Year 8 - Bushfires and pome fruit prices

More avo: This Year 8 'bite' talks about the market for avocados and how growers have responded to changes in consumer demand.
Year 8 - More avo

Year 9 Economics and Business

What do we trade with whom?: This Year 9 'bite' aims to engage the students in learning about trade through the use of an online data visualisation tool developed at Harvard’s Center for International Development.
Year 9 - What do we trade with whom?

Year 10 Economics and Business

Inflation at the global level: This Year 10 ' bite' aims to enable students to investigate how much inflation varies between countries using the IMF DataMapper.
Year 10 - Inflation at the global level

Unemployment: This Year 10 ‘bite’ gets students thinking about unemployment and how it differs between genders and age groups. It also provides the opportunity to use critical thinking skills to make predictions.
Year 10 - Unemployment

Em and Unem: This Year 10 'bite' allows student's to compare employment and unemployment between states and over time using the BCEC Data Insights platform.
Year 10 - Em and Unem

Unemployment at the global level: This Year 10 'bite' investigates unemployment rates across a range of countries. Students use the IMF DataMapper.
Year 10 - Unemployment at the global level

Year 11 and Year 12 Economics ATAR

Suitable for the Year 12 Unit 3 topics, Pattern of Trade and Balance of Payments, this ‘bite’ explores the changing pattern of trade in Australia since 2010.
Australia's Trade (NEW)

This econobite explores Australia's macroeconomic performance since the start of the global pandemic. It looks at changes in Real GDP and spending patterns since 2017. Suitable for Year 11 students studying Australia's macroeconomic performance.
The economy continues to recover after the recession of 2020 (NEW)

Suitable for the Year 12 Unit 3 topic, Free Protection and Trade, this ‘bite’ aims to explore the impact of China’s recent trade protection action on Australian exports.
Chinese Trade Sanctions on Australian Goods

Suitable for the Year 11 Unit 1 topic, Demand, supply and equilibrium, this ‘bite’ aims to show how price mechanism operates and changes in demand and supply affect market price and quantity.
Ginger prices skyrocket to record highs amid worldwide shortage

Consumer spending during COVID-19: This Year 11 and 12 'bite' investigates how the COVID-19 outbreak is impacting on consumer spending and the effects of the Government's economic policy actions since the outbreak started.

​ Consumer spending during COVID-19

The economic impact of the coronavirus: This Year 11 and 12 'bite' investigates how the COVID-19 outbreak is impacting on the Australian economy. Investigating a current real world event that has been so widely reported ‘leverages relevance’ to engage students and shows them the importance of Economics knowledge and skills.

​The economic impact of the coronavirus

Panama disease and banana prices: This Year 11 ‘bite’ aims to relate a commonly used example of the operation of the market - a supply shock for an agricultural product - to a current ‘real world’ situation.

Panama disease and banana prices

Boom, boom?: This Year 11 and 12 'bite' talks about the impact on economic activity of mine expansion in the Pilbara.
Boom, boom

Runway room: This Year 11 and 12 'bite' talks about the impact on economic activity of the proposed extra runway at Perth Airport.

​Runway room

Falling interest rates: This Year 12 'bite' aims to tap into the most current interest rate data. It also takes into consideration development of the skills in Unit 4 of the syllabus.

Falling interest rates

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