βοΈ Week 5: Choice Reflection - Trade-offs & Scarcity
Unit 10: Kai, Culture and Climate β Surviving Scarcity
Reflect on how scarcity and trade-offs shape decisions. Write a paragraph explaining your choices.
π Key Concepts Review
- Scarcity: When there isn't enough of something to meet everyone's wants and needs
- Trade-off: Giving up one thing to get another. Every choice has a cost.
- Opportunity Cost: The value of what you give up when you make a choice
- Choice: The act of selecting between different options when resources are limited
π Reflection: My Choices
1. The Role-Play Scenario
What choices did your group make in the disaster scenario?
What trade-offs did you make? (What did you give up?)
How did scarcity affect your decisions?
2. The Budgeting Task
What did you choose to buy with your $50?
What was your opportunity cost? (What did you give up by making these choices?)
Why did you make these choices?
π Connecting to Real Life
Think about a real-life situation where you had to make a choice because of scarcity (limited money, time, resources).
What trade-off did you make?
How does this connect to our unit's Big Question: "What Will We Eat Tomorrow?"
π Final Paragraph
Write a complete paragraph (5-7 sentences) explaining:
- How scarcity and trade-offs shape decisions
- What you learned from the activities
- How this connects to food scarcity and our unit
π‘ Sentence Starters (For Support)
- "Scarcity affects decisions because..."
- "When resources are limited, people must make trade-offs such as..."
- "The opportunity cost of my choice was..."
- "This connects to food scarcity because..."
- "I learned that scarcity forces us to..."