11COM

Year 11 Commerce

Subject Description

Teacher in Charge: Mr M. Prasad.

What is Economics about?

Economics examines how people make choices about the use of limited resources to satisfy unlimited wants. Economics helps explain and predict how goods and services will be produced and consumed.

Economics is the study of how people make decisions and of the forces that affect their behaviour and the shape of their institutions, such as the value of leisure time, consumer preferences, and the extent of government intervention.

Economics explores:

  • issues of sustainability (efficient use of scarce resources)
  • enterprise (identifying profit-maximizing levels of output)
  • citizenship (economic decisions affecting New Zealand society)
  • globalization (the benefits of international trade).

Economics considers the factors that influence the well-being of people and aims to find solutions to improve people's standard of living.

Economics has an important role to play in the education of all students, particularly in our rapidly changing society. Understanding basic economic concepts and the way in which the New Zealand economy operates is important for young people if they are to function in and contribute to our society.

The Aims of the Economic Syllabus

At Year 11, key economic conceptual understandings related to scarcity are introduced. Students gain an understanding of everyday micro-economic choices consumers, producers, and government need to make, because of scarcity, and the implications of these choices for society. Students are introduced to the supply and demand model, using it to support predictions they make about the effect of choices on society. 


Subject Overview

Term 1
AS9088 DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF SECTORS OF THE NEW ZEALAND ECONOMY.

Term 2
AS90984 DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF DECISIONS A PRODUCER MAKES ABOUT PRODUCTION

Term 3
AS90987 DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF A GOVERNMENT CHOICE WHERE AFFECTED GROUPS HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS
AS90983 DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF CONSUMER CHOICES USING SCARCITY AND/OR DEMAND

Term 4
AS90983 DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING OF CONSUMER CHOICES USING SCARCITY AND/OR DEMAND
AS90985 Demonstrate understanding of producer choices using supply

Recommended Prior Learning

Open Entry

Contributions and Equipment/Stationery

Level 1 Economics Learning Workbook $27

Pathway

Assessment Information

Three Internal assessments to be completed in and out of class time.
They are all research-based assessments worth a total of 12 internal credits.

Credit Information

You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.

This course is eligible for subject endorsement.

Total Credits Available: 19 credits.
Externally Assessed Credits: 7 credits.
Internally Assessed Credits: 12 credits.

Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 90983 v3
NZQA Info
Economics 1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of consumer choices, using scarcity and/or demand
4
4
4
Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 90984 v3
NZQA Info
Economics 1.2 - Demonstrate understanding of decisions a producer makes about production
Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 90985 v3
NZQA Info
Economics 1.3 - Demonstrate understanding of producer choices using supply
Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 3
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 90987 v3
NZQA Info
Economics 1.5 - Demonstrate understanding of a government choice where affected groups have different viewpoints
Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 90988 v3
NZQA Info
Economics 1.6 - Demonstrate understanding of the interdependence of sectors of the New Zealand economy
3
3
3
Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 3
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 19
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0