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 * Unit Title:** The Whys Behind the Buy

'How Can I Make a Difference? How can I make a difference?
 * Unit Summary:** The unit focuses on why individuals choose to make their individual consumer decisions, and the impact these decision have upon others and the wider world. Students investigate what motivates their behaviour as consumers, and examine the alternatives and possibilities that are open to them. They research the decisions they make, the decisions their classmates make, and examine the decisions made by people beyond the classroom, through their ongoing participation in a blog. They also have the option to research consumer behaviour and the economic structure within other countries. The activities designed to facilitate self enquiry will assist them to examine their final presentation based around the Essential Question:
 * Curriculum-Framing Questions:**
 * Essential Question**

How do my choices as a consumer affect others? What sacrifices do I make when I choose to buy the things I buy? How may my spending habits help improve the world? Who may benefit from my consumer choices? How do the purchases I make affect who I am? What do my purchases show about who I am? What do my purchases show about my priorities as a person? How may my present spending habits benefit me; a) in the short term? b) in the long term? What personal benefits could there be for me to change my personal spending habits?
 * Unit Questions**

What is opportunity cost? What is a consumer? What is capitalism? What is globalization? What is socialism? What is communism? What are producers and manufacturers doing to make their industries more environmentally friendly? What is opportunity cost? What is bartering? What is sustainability? What are greenhouse gases? What are the means of production? What is exploitation?
 * Content Questions:**

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