DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION PROGRAMME

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, ST. AUGUSTINE

Economics LESSON PLAN

TEACHER

Miss Kimerlee Soo Ting

DATE

16/10/15

CLASS

Lower Six

TIME

period(s)

UNIT

Consumer Demand

TOPIC

Price Elasticity of Demand

40

minutes

PRE-KNOWLEDGE
Definition of demand
The first law of demand
The demand curve

OBJECTIVES:
Pupils will:

Classification
Be able to define Price Elasticity of Demand

Cognitive

Be able to calculate PED

Psychomotor

Be able to interpret PED figures

Cognitive

Appreciate the usefulness of PED

Affective

SET INDUCTION Time allotted: 10 mins

Guesstures- A game where students act out various words and their peers try to guess the word.

SECTION 1- Time allotted: 10 mins

Define Price Elasticity of Demand

METHOD

Teaching Strategy

Student Activity

Teacher will use relatable

In groups of three, students will be asked to

products to explain the

list 3 goods which they believe are price

meaning of Price Elasticity of

sensitive and 3 goods which are not

Resources
Powerpoint

Demand

SECTIONAL REVIEW and feedback (formative assessment strategies) Time allotted: 5 mins

Oral feedback on student activity

SECTION 2- Time allotted: 10 mins

Content:

Teaching points:
Calculate Price Elasticity of Demand
Interpret the results

METHOD
Teaching Strategy
Use two examples to
demonstrate how PED is
calculated and classified

Student Activity
In pairs, students will be required to calculate
3 price elasticities of demand and classify the
good as elastic or inelastic

Resources
Video
Worksheet
Whiteboard
Marker

SECTIONAL REVIEW and feedback (formative assessment strategies) Time allotted: 5 mins

Worksheet to calculate PED and categorize

SECTION 3- Time allotted:

Content:

Teaching points:

METHOD
Teaching Strategy

Student Activity

SECTIONAL REVIEW and feedback (formative assessment strategies) Time allotted:

Resources

CLOSURE Time allotted: 2 mins

Oral closure to highlight the main points

FINAL EVALUATION
Time allotted 5 mins

Reasonable level of achievement:

Cloze test

Related Objective

1, 2, 3 & 4

FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
Students will be required to research the factors which affect Price Elasticity of Demand

TEACHERS EVALUATION OF THE LESSON

TUTORS COMMENTS
Strengths:
Demonstrated knowledge of content and pedagogy
Planned material/resource and assessments
Established a culture for student learning
Questioning and Discussion techniques were used throughout the lesson (using situations and concepts)
Areas to work on:
Font size on power point presentations
Classification of instructional objectives
Work on a strategy to hide the topic of the lesson for set induction