Week 4 - Using Video in Instruction

I decided to build my video lesson plan around one of the more complex topics in my 9th grade economics class - supply and demand.  We teach only the very simple concepts of supply and demand, but it is something students still struggle with.  The most effective way I've found to teach graphing problems is through practice - almost like a math class.  My hope is that a lesson like the one below will be more engaging, but will also allow students to move through the content at their own pace until they have achieved mastery of it.  It also allows students to rely as much or as little on my "help" as they need it.  Students will have already done two introductory lessons before moving into this video lesson.

Learning Objective: students will be able to analyze headlines to determine if supply or demand is shifted and how it impacts the market equilibrium for that market.

Students will work through a supply and demand shifter practice problems worksheet.

Step 1 - students will watch a supply and demand introduction powtoon video.

Step 2 - students will watch the below videos I created to review the six supply shifters and six demand shifters.  These shifters will be used in the practice problems later on in the lesson.

Supply Shifter Video

Demand Shifter Video

Step 3 - students will work through the supply and demand shifter practice problems.  They can check their work using the videos below.  I intentionally did not make videos for some of the problems so that students would be forced to be self-reliant on at least a couple of problems.

Question #2 Video

Question #3 Video

Question #5 Video

Question #6 Video

Question #7 Video

Question #8 Video