Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
• What is Economics?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEq4yjjR
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Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
-Studies human behavior
i.e. how people make choices, why some
countries are not as developed as the rest,
why prices keep increasing, how
government policies affect the
development of the countries…
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
The Beginning
 Started as an enrichment class with 20
Secondary 2 students in 2006
 5 students took ‘O’ level in 2007 with 3
achieving distinction & 2 B3
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
The Journey
 Since 2007, ‘O’ level Economics is
offered to Secondary 3 Express and
Normal (Academic) students
 Lessons were conducted after
curriculum time in 2006 to 2007
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
The Journey
 From 2008 onwards, lessons were
conducted during curriculum time
 Results of 2008 ‘O’ level were very
promising
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
Profile
Year
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
No of ‘O’ level students
Sec 4 Express
Sec 4 Normal (Academic)
2007
5
0
2008
15
3
2009
26
4
2010
86
0
2011
40
0
2012
41
0
2013
41
0
 Currently, there are 41 Secondary 3 students
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
Pedagogy
 Newspaper articles
 Bak Kwa Buys
 Protectionism
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Pedagogy
 Activities
 Economics is everywhere
 Needs vs Wants
 My Dream Job!
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Pedagogy
 Online Activities
 Escape from Barter Island
 Explore money around the world
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg
xX1hPLbg0
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Activities
 World Trade Game
 Financial Literacy Carnival
 MoneySense Game
 International Studies Program
-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
World Trade Game
 Understand the economic situation of
various countries
 Substitute each country’s weakness
with other country’s strength for each
country’s development
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
World Trade Game
 Gain an experience of barter trade as
well as understand demand and
supply in real life
 Create interest and discussion about
the world trading system in an
enjoyable and non-academic way
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
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长老会中
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为真理献己，焚而不毁
Reflections
 As representatives of a country, we had
to practice some governing principles,
like being forward looking
 This could be done by collaborating,
setting up agreements with other
countries for later rounds
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Reflections
 We could see from real life situations
why barter trade is not an efficient
way to obtain what we need
 In this game, we had to apply concepts
we learnt in economics, such as
demand and supply, barter trade, etc
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Financial Literacy Carnival
 Promote financial literacy amongst
students and adults
 A variety of activities including a skit
on money management, a financial
education amazing race and Praxis
Board games
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
Q&A
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Presbyterian High School 长老会中学
Aflame for Truth
长老会中
学
为真理献己，焚而不毁
Thank You!