The Cost of Our Futures: Oil Markets and Government Intervention
William Lawrence McKinney
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Students will move through this curricular unit by beginning with content and slowly progressing by adding context to the content. Students will watch instructional videos, listen to lectures and podcasts, complete explorations, and watch a documentary to better learn content and context for this unit. The explorations are key components to the unit in that they help students derive specific effects caused by taxes and subsidies. You may want to split your students into small groups when working on explorations so students can run ideas by one another and check each other's work. When students begin preparing for the debate that will happen at the end of the unit, students may choose to complete their research individually or in groups. I recommend that students divide their research into multiple parts, begin their research individually, and share back with their debate team. This will minimize the amount of work each individual must do.