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Oklahoma’s Personal Financial Literacy Passport ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.1 Teacher Presentation Series A Introduction Lesson 1 – Economic Way of Thinking Handout 1 – What Should the Jones Family Do with Their Vacant Lot? Handout 2 - Economic Reasoning Handout 3 – Making a Decision

The Economic Way of thinking involves the ability to develop and practice critical thinking skills that enhance decision making. It requires students to realize that life is about making choices because we have limited resources and unlimited wants. Using the “economic reasoning” model, students will realize that all choices have costs, and nothing in life is “free.” This introductory lesson lays the foundation for the remaining modules. 2 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

3 Economic Reasoning Introduction:

Payoff Payoff Identify the steps in economic reasoning. Define the terms associated with economic reasoning. Demonstrate the ability to apply economic reasoning. Demonstrate the ability to use the PACED decision making model. 4 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Cache Cache Choices Cost/Benefit analysis Incentives and Disincentives Opportunity costs Scarcity Trade-offs 5 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Building Interest Building Interest Can we have everything we want? Why or why not? What are some of the choices you have made today? Why did you make them? Do all choices or decisions turn out like we planned? Why or why not? 6 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Improving our Decisions We have to make choices. We cannot have everything we want. Society has limited resources. People have unlimited wants. We call this problem SCARCITY. 7 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Improving our Decisions Every time we make a choice, we give up something. All choices have benefits. Something positive we gain. All choices have costs. Something we have to give up to have our first choice. Our second best choice called OPPORTUNITY COST. 8 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Improving our Decisions We respond to incentives. Incentives are rewards. Disincentives are punishments. People prefer incentives and will change their behavior as their incentives change. We use incentives to evaluate the costs and benefits of our alternatives when making choices. 9 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Improving our Decisions Choices are shaped by economic systems. Economic systems have rules that influence what we can and cannot do. Rules influence our incentives. Incentives influence our choices. As rules change, incentives and choices change. 10 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Improving our Decisions Choices have consequences for the future. The choices we make today impact our available choices in the future. What seems like a benefit today may be a cost tomorrow. We should make choices focused on the future. We cannot change what happened in the past. 11 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Jones Family Dilemma --Activity 1 The Jones Family wants to sell their land on the edge of town. They want to make the best choice for their community. Four different groups want to buy their land. ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.12 Can you help them make a choice?

Jones Family Dilemma --Activity 1 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.13 Local school board wants to build a new school. MEGAMALL, Inc. wants to build a new shopping center. Wid-Get Manufacturing wants to build a new manufacturing plant. Builduahome wants to build new housing.

Jones Family Dilemma --Activity 1 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.14 The Jones Family must decide which buyer should have the land. Remember, they want to do what is BEST for the community.

The Jones Family What should the family do with the land? What should the family consider before making a choice? How will their criteria influence their choices? 15 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Choices and Opportunity Costs What are some of the choices you have made today? What did you give up when you made that choice? What incentives can you identify that influenced your choices? 16 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

PACED Decision-Making Model State the PROBLEM. List the ALTERNATIVES. Identify the CRITERIA. EVALUATE the options, based on the criteria. Make a DECISION. 17 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

PACED Decision-Making Model Use the PACED Model to make a decision! 18 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

PACED – The Problem Maria plans to attend college. She needs your help to decide where to go. What are Maria’s alternatives? ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.19

The Alternatives – Maria’s Top Choices Local community college Regional state university Major state university Private college or university ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.20

Criteria – What’s Important to Maria? Proximity to home Cost Availability of scholarships or jobs Major ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.21

Evaluate – What’s the Best Match for Maria? Criteria Alternatives Distance from home ScholarshipsCostMajor Local Community College Regional State University Major State University Private College ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.22

Decide – What Should Maria Do? Once you determine which alternative best meets your criteria, then you can make an informed choice! Making informed choices improves your chance of making “good” choices. ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.23

Last, but not least…….. The next step is to ACT! Making choices without putting them into action is not a good practice. ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.24 If Maria never enrolls, then she can never graduate or have the career she wants.

Resources are limited and wants are unlimited. We have to make choices. All choices have costs. People respond to incentives in predictable ways. All choices have consequences. Earnings 25 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

We need to weigh both the costs and benefits before making choices. Good decisions are well thought out and based on facts. Using economic reasoning and the PACED model can improve our decision making skills. Earnings 26 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.

Why do we have to make choices? What is scarcity? What is opportunity cost? What is the PACED model for making decisions? Balance Sheet 27 ©2008. Oklahoma State Department of Education. All rights reserved.