Question Formulation Technique

Supply & Demand

Learning Target: I can develop open-ended questions for conversation.

What do sneakers and oil have in common? Think of at least three similarities.

Now that we've learned the basic questions economists ask themselves, and started to learn about the assumptions that economists make in our analyses, it's time to take a breather from case studies and formulate some questions of our own.

  1. ceteris paribus! ↩



✍ Rules for Question Formulation

  1. Ask as many questions as you can.
  2. Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer any of the questions.
  3. Write down every question exactly as it was stated.
  4. Change any statements into questions.

After you have finished listing all of your groups questions, go through and rewrite any closed questions as open questions.

  1. Closed-ended questions results in a yes or no answer. Open-ended questions allows for discussion. ↩

Sources

# Lesson
1 Factors of Production
2 Supply & Demand
3 Modeling with Supply & Demand
4 Supply & Demand Case Study

Question Focus:

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

Groups

bold names create Google Doc, share with SK, and record group questions.
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5

Katia

Adam

Jose

Evelyn

Devonte

David F.

Edward

Alexander

BG

Axel

Soriel

Kathryn

Atiba

Josue

Carlos

Dallana

Stephanie

Noe

Eric

Elizabeth

Crystal

Anthony

Alyssa

Annalis

Emarie

Michael

Matthew

Emily

Yaritza

Nayeli

Jeremiah

Shakira