This End-of-Term Economics activity challenges students to answer a range of Economics questions in order to find the 3 criminals responsible for stealing Father Christmas' Naughty and Nice List.
The first is ideal for Year 12/Lower 6th students who study a linear course and are approaching the end of the microeconomics content, although it may work for parallel micro-macro courses if you have been speedy!
Content covered:
- Opportunity Cost
- PPFs
- Demand and Supply Shifts
- Consumer and Producer
- SurplusMarket
- Surplus and Shortage
- Interrelated Markets
- PED, YED and XED
- Public goods
- Externalities
The second is desgined for Year 13/ Upper 6th students who might need a bit of Year 1 Revision before mocks
Content covered:
- Macro Measures (inc Types of Unemployment)
- Index Numbers
- Circular Flow
- Macroeconomic Policies
- PPFs
- Consumer and Producer Surplus
- Market Surplus and Shortage
- Interrelated Markets
- XED
- Public goods
- Externalities
Please note, since both versions have the same solution and some duplicated questions, I would not recommend doing both activities with the same group. For other end-of-term activities, you might want to check out the following: