Warm UP 1.What do YOU think the government’s role in the economy should be? 2.What actions by...

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Warm UP 1.What do YOU think the government’s role in the economy should be? 2.What actions by people affect your community? World?

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Warm UP

1. What do YOU think the government’s role in the economy should be?

2. What actions by people affect your community? World?

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Consumers in Society

• You have freedom to make decisions• You make choices for your own benefit• Decisions have impacts on others

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Be a Responsible Consumer

• Share limited resources– Water– forest

• Protect public safety• The environment– Garbage– Other pullutants

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Using the Internet

• Find at least two suppliers of recycled paper products

• Compare the price to products made with new resources

• How may these prices affect people’s willingness to buy recycled products?

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Encourage Responsibility

• As a group, you and other consumers have great power to influence businesses to operate responsibly

• Lists of businesses who produce responsibly can be found on the National Green Pages

• Conserve• Each person produces 4.4 pounds of trash

each day!

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Recycling

• Cite 4 recycling facts you discovered• Top 10– List 10 ways you and your family can reduce or

recycle

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Review

• Questions 21, 22, 28 for Closure!• Test tomorrow!

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