RW+8.1

=Resources and Wealth= ====**Outcome PW 8.1 -** **//Analyze the social and environmental consequences of living in the Canadian mixed market economy based on consumerism.//** ==== The Big Idea: What is a mixed market economy? What is meant by consumerism – we all participate to consumerism but to what degree? What are advantages and disadvantages of consumerism (increased standard of living, vs loss of self-sufficiency, overconsumption, environmental impact?

a. Investigate the goods and services produced in the local economy and the consumers of those goods and services (e.g., hospital, hairdressers, manufacturers, farmers, exporters).
__**Ideas for the Classroom:**__ Comparing and Contrasting attitude about Health Care between American and Canadian health care Stats Canada

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b. Categorize the producers of goods and services in the local economy as belonging to the public or private sector, and define the differences of the two groupings.
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c. Identify the purpose and characteristics of: public enterprise and private enterprise.
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Illustrate the elements of a mixed market economy present in the lives of students.
__**Ideas for the Classroom:**__ Market economy has government regulations or interventions Sask Power vs Private power companies Why was Sask Power developed? What are Crown Corporations?


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e. Appraise the role of advertising in the mixed market economy.
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f. Determine the positive and negative social and environmental consequences for family, school, and community in the Canadian mixed market economy.
__**Ideas for the Classroom:**__ What are positive and negative social and environmental consequences of mixed market? Linking to economic effects of too much rain this spring: What does that mean for the family, the community, the province, Comparing life from the past (I remember when pop was 25 cents) to now. Discussion of credit cards


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g. Recognize the impact of living in situations in which assets are collectively or communally owned (e.g., First Nations, Hutterian communities).
__**Ideas for the Classroom:**__ Explore the Hutterian communities; compare and contrast


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Some Ideas: for your classroom: //1. Use a Frayer Model for terms, definitions and recording information. // //2. RAN Charts (reading and analyzing non-fiction) as an alterative organizer to the KWLS. // //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3. Venn Diagrams are very useful for comparing and contrasting information. //

//<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">**Additional Resource Supports:** //