Can Monsters Improve Your Standard of Living? 🎃

 

In this lesson, students will learn about the factors that support economic growth by deciding how to spend tax revenues generated by monster tourism. Students will be able to:

  • define taxes, economic growth, and productivity.

  • explain how productivity contributes to economic growth.

  • identify spending projects that could improve a community’s productivity.

 


GRADE LEVEL

6-8

TIME REQUIRED

60 minutes

VIRTUAL-FRIENDLY?

No

 


NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ECONOMICS EDUCATION

  • Economic Growth

 


MATERIALS

Can Monsters Improve Your Standard of Living?
 


RELATED RESOURCES

Halloween-themed materials