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Let’s Practice! The practice activities for this lesson are: Let's Practice: Barterpalooza! (In-class activity) Let's Practice: Know How 2 Negotiate Exploring 21st Century Skills and Issues: Identify Your Strengths and Weaknesses with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Ponder and Predict As civilization advanced, trade and commerce expanded. Humans needed a way to address the limitations of barter. How were the limitations of barter overcome? What took the place of barter? Write your prediction, and in the next lesson, find out if you are right! Assign • Blog, debate, discuss: On many occasions in high school, college, and career, you will be required to work on a collaborative project. Have you ever found it particularly difficult to work with someone on a project? Why? What was it about that person you found difficult? Were you the “difficult” person? How can you improve SLIDE 2K PRODUCT PREVIEW your ability to work successfully with others in a collaborative group? • To prepare for the next lesson: read Chapter 3 of the student workbook . • Watch business or financial news at least 15 minutes per day: Bloomberg West (www.bloomberg.com/video/bloomberg-west) The Street Business News (www.thestreet.com) Reuters (www.reuters.com/video/technology) • Students research and select two or three business or economics journalists they like and follow them on Twitter. Students can find journalists on Slate Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, CNN Money, The Washington Post, Fox Business, New York Times – or any other reputable news source.
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Lesson 2 | Cave Man Commerce
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