LibGuides: Economics: Introduction

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Britannica School Edition This link opens in a new window Britannica School. Welcome to Britannica School, a safe, up-to-date, and age-appropriate information resource for Elementary, Middle, and High School. Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research and reinforce curriculum standards.
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Covers World History from Antiquity to the present covering every region of the world with a broad range of topics, from slavery, empire, and revolution to race, gender, economy, and disease. Uses primary sources to analyse great events in world history, the database features hundreds of pro/con articles and thousands of primary sources. Every article is centred on original documents, with the goal of teaching students how to interpret primary sources, assess point of view, improve critical thinking skills, and understand the forces that have shaped history over the past 5,000 years. Please note special article, Australia and Its Policy on Indigenous People
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Year 8 Economics - Area of Focus

1. Identifying changes to the workforce over time, such as jobs available, the way individuals or communities value particular work, career length and human resource development.

2. Investigating present influences on the ways people work, such as technological change, outsourced labour in the global economy, rapid communication changes

3. Predicting changes to work in the future and possible outcomes, for example: "What could be the effect of a changing attitude to work-life balance or the decline of some industries?

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