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Grade 7, Civics Std 6.1: Using economic concepts to explain historical and current developments and issues in global, national, or local contexts

Lesson Plans: Crude Awakenings: An Economics Lesson on Setting World Oil Prices In this lesson, students first discover the tensions that have recently caused the price of crude oil to skyrocket. Students then explore the ways in which oil prices are determined. Diamonds Are Forever Fueling Civil Wars In this lesson, students first explore the failures of the United Nations embargo on 'conflict diamonds' from Sierra Leone. Students then participate in a trading game in which they explore the international trading system and the ways in which it rewards and punishes countries. Dot-Commerce: Examining the Global Marketplace Created on the Internet In this lesson, students analyze the impact that e-commerce has in their community, as well as in small traditional communities that one might not expect to be part of the dot-com marketplace.

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