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Looking for Budget activities?

  • Writer: The Econosaurus
    The Econosaurus
  • Nov 26
  • 2 min read

I'm still working on these and will post them around 9:30ish. I know you'll likely want to plan your lessons before then, so to give you an idea, these are the resources you can expect:

  • NEW: Ugly but functional powerpoint

    • Goes through brief context and main policies

  • Quotation Scavenger Hunt

    • A list of claims and students have to find evidence of each in the Executive Summary. Good for comprehension and application practice

  • Policy Analysis table

    • The same as previous years: For each row, students pick a policy, identify it's intended outcome, how it theoretically achieves that and possible disadvantages

  • Impact Assessment

    • Again, like previous year: Gives different groups in society (Pensioners, Small firms etc) and asks students to consider how each could be impacted

  • Budget Charts

    • I've picked out some of the graphs from the report, students just need to explain what they show.

    • Also included in the powerpoint in case you want to go through these with students (they are really good graphs this year!)

  • Macro impact

    • Just asks students to consider the impact of the budget on various macro objectives

  • Pie charts match up

    • Students are given unlabelled pie charts and categories of spending/receipts and they just need to match them up

    • PPT version included as it makes a nice starter

    • Answers included, learned my lesson from last time...

  • Fact checker

    • Using fullfact to assess some claims made my both parties re: the budget

  • NEW: How taxes can change

    • 2 page explainer on how taxes change (ie not just rate rises, but eligibility changes, relief changes, band changes etc). Useful with this budget because the tax changes are quite nuanced, but would also just be good reading/evaluation fodder for fiscal policy more generally. Includes explanation of fiscal drag.

    • Also included in the ugly but functional powerpoint. Would be best as an explainer before you look at the budget. In hindsight I should have shared this pre-Budget.

    • Also a paper-based exercise where students have to find an example of each type of change in the Budge

  • NEW: How spending can change

    • Much briefer explainer than the tax one, but looks at things like total vs per capita spending and funded vs unfunded spending promises

    • Also included in the ugly but functional powerpoint.

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