Snacks may seem trivial, but for students they represent daily economic decisions, including limited budgets, market trends, non-price competition, and trade-offs. In this interactive online session, participants will step into the shoes of high school students to explore how snack food choices reveal core economic principles such as scarcity, opportunity cost, demand, and behavioral economics. Through polls, breakout discussions, and hands-on digital activities, teachers will experience engaging strategies.
Teachers will explore lesson plans, classroom data sets, and ad-analysis tools that can be applied in multiple subject areas, including economics, math, and personal finance.
By the end of the session, teachers will leave with practical, standards-based resources to connect everyday snack choices to powerful economic reasoning in any classroom.
Join us and bring real-world economics into your classroom!
All attendees will receive:
- Engaging, standards-aligned lessons to teach supply & demand, market structures and opportunity cost using practical, real-world snack food examples
- Practical examples featuring data sets, charts and graphs related to current snack food trends
- 1 hour of professional development credit
Due to the interactive nature of the presentation, all participants will be required to have reliable internet access and a device with video and audio capabilities.
Please contact Kathy Pondy if you have any questions related to this workshop.