For Module 6, you will be completing a project. Please read the lessons first and then fill out the charts.
When you reach a Stop Sign on the file, save your work and submit your file for a grade if needed.
Part One: Choose and economic issue that is important to your community
Potential Economic Policy Topics
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Water scarcity
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Energy conservation
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Chemical safety

Sustainable
development
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Water pollution
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Malnutrition
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Resource stripping
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Biodiversity

Sanitation
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Deforestation

Erosion
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Hazardous waste
Population/food
supply
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Transportation
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Noise pollution

Climate change

Animal
overpopulation

Air pollution
6.01 Research Chart
Subject
Define the situation or problem
from above.
Guiding Questions
1. Take the issue you have
chosen and explain how
it affects your
_________________________
community.
2. What do members of
your family and
community say about
the issue?
Subject
Guiding Questions
Construct a circular-flow diagram
1. How does this issue
that incorporates effects of your
affect households and
chosen issue on economic
local residents?
products and various sectors of
2. How does this issue
the economy.
affect area businesses?
3.
How does this issue
affect our government at
the local, state, and
national levels?
Your Responses
Your Responses
Local –
State –
National –
4.
How does this issue
affect the rest of the
world?
5. How does the issue
affect resources, goods
and services, and
finances?
Resources –
Goods and Services –
Finances
Circular Flow Diagram Available as a Separate Document – Save this Document as 601research and
attach both this and the Circular Flow Diagram to 6.01 in your assessments.
This next section is for the 6.02 Research Chart.
6.02 Research Chart
Subject
Identify the important criteria to
evaluate possible solutions.
Guiding Questions
1. What are the necessary
conditions for any
possible solution to
work?
2. Are there budget or
labor concerns?
Your Response
3. Does the public need to
be aware of and support
the solution?
4. What challenges are
there to implementing
each solution?
5. How else might you
judge possible solutions
against each other?
6. What do your parents
say about the issue?
7. Should possible
externalities factor into
the chosen solution?
You will not need to submit this chart, but you will need use this information in the final part of the
project.
This next section is for the 6.03 Research Chart.
6.03 Research Chart
Subject
Consider all possible solutions or
alternatives.
Guiding Questions
1. Give 3 possible solutions to
the economic issue you are
investigating.
Your Responses
1.
2.
3.
2. Why would some people
oppose the solutions you
have chosen? (Answer for
each solution)
1.
2.
3.
Calculate the consequences of
these solutions—both intended
and unintended at all levels of
the economy.
1.
What positive or negative
externalities does this issue
present at each sector of
the economy? Refer to your
circular-flow diagram.
Be sure you look at the positive
and negative for EACH of your
solutions from above.
Households –
Positive –
1.
2.
3.
Negative –
1.
2.
3.
Businesses –
Positive –
1.
2.
3.
Negative –
1.
2.
3.
Government –
Positive –
1.
2.
3.
Negative –
1.
2.
3.
Rest of the world –
Positive –
1.
2.
3.
Negative
1.
2.
3.
2. What incentives do
individuals, businesses,
and government have to
act on each possible
solution?
Be sure to look at each solution
for each incentive.
Individuals –
1.
2.
3.
Businesses –
1.
2.
3.
Government –
1.
2.
3.
3. What are the
externalities, both
positive and negative
that could result from
each possible solution?
Positive –
1.
2.
3.
Negative –
1.
2.
3.
Save the file as 603research and submit to assessment 6.03
6.04 Picture Collection Activity
Use this page to keep your pictures. Copy and paste from the internet or from your own collection of
pictures. Be sure to keep a record of where you found your pictures for the citations list.
This next section is for your 6.05 Research Project assessment.
6.05
Subject
Analyze and Choose
Guiding Questions
How does each possible solution
for your chosen issue meet or
fail to meet each of your
criteria?
Refer back to your chart for 6.02
and the criteria for conditions,
budget/labor concerns, public
support, your parents ideas, how
do they compare to each other,
and externalities.
Your Responses
Solution 1 –
Solution 2 –
Solution 3 -
Based on your research, which is
the best solution to turn into
action? Explain why you made
this choice over the other
possible solutions. Refer back to
the criteria and the externalities.
Now it is time to create your presentation. You should create a presentation that includes ALL of your
research. Your introduction should come from your research in 6.01. The “meat” of your presentation
will come from you findings in 6.02, 6.03, and 6.04. Your conclusion will come from your findings in
6.05.
Your presentation can be anything including a slide show, video, website, speech, essay with charts, skit,
or blog. Just be sure that EVERYTHING is included and that you do not simply list your research charts.
They should be incorporated into your presentation – not just copied and pasted.
You can also use this template to create your presentation.
Good luck.