LESSON INDEX:
Lesson Plan Overview
LESSON ONE:
Oil Crisis:
Get Into The Game
LESSON TWO:
How Bad Can It Get?
LESSON THREE:
Life Is Starting To Change
LESSON FOUR:
Elasticity and Collapse
LESSON FIVE:
Oil Dependency
Among Nations
LESSON SIX:
Food Without Oil
LESSON SEVEN:
Breakdown
LESSON EIGHT:
Preparation and Community
LESSON NINE:
Lessons Learned
LESSON TEN:
Your World Without Oil
LESSON THREE:
Life Is Starting To Change
Introduction
As the oil crisis continues, widespread changes are starting to occur. Resources
that were getting expensive are now becoming unavailable. Airlines are cutting
flights, outages are beginning at local gas stations, people are being laid off
and stores are closing. The changes are occurring most rapidly and severely to
those goods and services that depended the most on cheap oil.
As you present developments in the oil crisis, ask the students to deal
realistically with these developments in their own lives. As they try to
anticipate what will happen next in the crisis, they will naturally explore the
role that resources have in their lives.
Lesson Objectives
Students will:
Before the Lesson
Part 1: Set the Stage
Student Page for this lesson is here:
http://worldwithoutoil.org/metalesson3s.htm
This page summarizes ideas and instructions for students.
Part 5: Take It Further
Distribute this to your students:
Now that we are starting to feel the impact of crisis, it is time to start making some real world changes. To take it further today, you are being challenged to take on one or more of the WWO Missions.
National Standards (McREL)
Overarching (All Lessons)
Standard 44.
Understands the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world
Level IV (Grades 9-12), Benchmark 2:
Understands rates of economic development and the emergence of different economic systems around the globe (e.g., systems of economic management in communist and capitalist countries, as well as the global impact of multinational corporations; the impact of black markets, speculation, and trade in illegal products on national and global markets; patterns of inward, outward, and internal migration in the Middle East and North Africa, types of jobs involved, and the impact of the patterns upon national economies; the rapid economic development of East Asian countries in the late 20th century, and the relatively slow development of Sub-Saharan African countries)
Lesson 1: Specific Standards
Economics
Standard 1: Understands that scarcity of productive resources requires choices that generate opportunity costs
Level IV, Benchmark 1: Understands that marginal benefit is the change in total benefit resulting from an action, and marginal cost is the change in total cost resulting from an action
Standard 3: Understands the concept of prices and the interaction of supply and demand in a market economy
Level IV, Benchmark3: Understands that changes in supply or demand cause relative prices to change; in turn, buyers and sellers adjust their purchase and sales decisions
Geography
Standard 18: Understands global development and environmental issues
Level IV, Benchmark 1: Understands the concept of sustainable development and its effects in a variety of situations (e.g., toward cutting the rain forests in Indonesia in response to a demand for lumber in foreign markets, or mining the rutile sands along the coast of eastern Australia near the Great Barrier Reef)
State Standards (All Lessons)