The Economy and the Environment

Component: Economic Citizenship | Grade Level: Grade 7-8

Learning Targets:

Targets for knowledge, skills, and behaviours below are possible targets. It is not expected that all will be covered by a single Teaching Unit. Teachers can select their learning targets using the Teaching Units provided (to the right), adaptations of these Teaching Units, or Units/Lesson Plans they develop on their own.

KNOW:

  • Concept of “economic sustainability”
  • Concept of renewable and non-renewable resources
  • How business, household, and consumer actions can affect  the environment – positively and negatively
  • How governments policies and actions can affect the environment – positively and negatively
  • Concept of “economic, citizenship” and what it means – e.g. help sustain and improve the environment, be an informed voter, consider impact of decisions on others, consider the circumstances and needs of others, obey laws and abide by regulation

BE ABLE TO:

  • Provide examples of how changes in business and consumer actions can lead to improvements in the environment
  • Make personal decisions that can help sustain and improve the environment
  • Generate ideas to help sustain and improve the environment
  • Discuss and assess various actions of business and governments in terms of the impact on the environment

ACTION/BEHAVIOUR:

  • Live, work, and play in ways that help sustain and possibly improve the environment
  • Support reasonable activities that have a positive impact on the environment
  • Consider careers that involve helping to sustain and improve the environment
  • Take an interest in government and how policies of different political parties could affect their lives
  • When of age, be a responsible voter

Teaching Unit:

The Economy and the Environment

People need to live, work and play in ways that help sustain and possibly improve the environment. If children make good decisions now about helping the environment, they are more likely to become eco-friendly adults and make decisions that will help sustain our resources and environment.

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