Display a transparency of Activity 3. Review student answers. Write the two questions below on the board. Instruct students to answer the questions. Explain your answer.
Workers are able to produce more of a good using the same resources in the same amount of time.
Explain your answer. Inform students that they should include unskilled as well as skilled jobs and professional occupations in their sample. Have students interview their parents or other adults and ask them how many years of education they have completed and what job they hold.