The problem of scarcity
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write 5 material and 3 spiritual needs of your family. Which are personal and which social?
Sample: material – food, clothes, housing; spiritual – books, music, education; school – social, clothes – personal.
2
A family plans spending 3 400 000 so‘m on food, 800 000 on clothes and 600 000 on transport in a month, but its income is 4 500 000 so‘m. What is the shortfall in so‘m?
300000
3
What resources (natural, labour, capital) does your school have? Write one example of each.
Sample: natural – the school yard land and water; labour – teachers; capital – the building, computers.
4
Why do social goods such as schools, doctors and roads not make the scarcity problem go away either?
Because creating them also uses resources; the state's means are limited too, so it must choose what to spend more on.