3. Choices and Changes Lessons: 1.Scarcity 2.Alternatives 3.Alternatives Have Advantages & Disadvantages 4.Choice 5.Opportunity Cost

4. Lesson 6 Decision Making Five Steps

5. The Five Steps 1.State the goal and identify the resources 2.List alternative uses of the resources 3.Identify the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative 4.Identify the choice and the opportunity cost 5.Re-evaluate

6. Vocabulary Decision making – the process of identifying a choice Goal – something that a person wants to have or do Re-evaluate – think again about a decision made previously

8. Your grandparents send you $20 for your birthday. What will you do with it? Resource:$20.00 Goal:Maximum Satisfaction, Enjoyment, Pleasure Alternative 1: Alternative 2: Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

9. You really want to have a new bike that is expensive. You have some money half. You see a video game that you really want. Resource:Money you have saved. Goal:maximize enjoyment and satisfaction Alternative 1: Alternative 2: Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

10. You finish your homework early. You are reading a great book, you favorite TV show is on, and you have a new computer game. What do you do? Resource:Time Goal:Maximize enjoyment Alternative 1: Alternative 2: Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

11. Your best friend asks you to spend the night and you agree. Then another friend asks you to have dinner at his house. You really want to have dinner at the other friend’s house. Resource:Time Goal:Maximum enjoymen Alternative 1: Alternative 2: Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

12. While riding your bike, you find a wallet. There is money inside and also an ID with an address. What do you do? Resource: Wallet Goal: Honest, Spend the money Alternative 1:Keep the wallet Alternative 2: return the wallet Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

13. You and your little sister are home alone after school. She wants you to help her with her homework but you would like to play with your friends. Resource:Time Goal:Being helpful, have a good time. Alternative 1:Help your sister Alternative 2:Play with friends Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

14. Your best friend wants you to let him copy the answers to the math assignment. He say he didn’t have time to do the assignment himself. Resource:your answers Goal: Not get caught, To be cool. Alternative 1:let him copy Alternative 2:Not let him copy Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

15. A group of your friends start picking on a student who doesn’t have many friends. You want to help him, but are afraid of what other kids might think. Resource: Picked on student Goal: Being responsible, Being cool. Alternative 1:Look the other way Alternative 2: Tell your friends to stop Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

16. A kid is picking on you and taking your lunch money. Resource: Bully Goal: Not to get beat up, keep the money, not get pushed around, Alternative 1:Fight back Alternative 2: give him your money Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

17. You are skateboarding with friends. You find a downhill street that would be really fun to go down, but there is an intersection at the bottom. Your friend goes down and then dares you to go. Resource:Downhill street with intersection Goal: Enjoyment, Personal safety, being cool. Alternative 1: Don’t go down Alternative 2: Go Down Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

18. You are the captain for picking teams for kickball in P.E. Your best friend is not very good. Resource: Being the Captain Goal: Have the best team, loyalty. Alternative 1:Pick your friend Alternative 2: Not pick your friend Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

19. You see lots of bruises on your friend and are worried about him. He says he fell down, but you have seen bruises many times Resource: Goal: Alternative 1: Alternative 2: Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

20. You went camping over the weekend. When you get to class Monday morning and begin taking your books out of your backpack you notice that you forgot to remove your pocketknife from the pack before coming to school. The pocketknife is not allowed on school property. Resource: Goal: Alternative 1: Alternative 2: Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost:

21. There is a substitute teacher in your classroom. Other kids in the class are not following the class rules and are misbehaving. What do you do? Resource:Substitute Teacher Goal: Fit in, avoid getting in trouble, doing the right thing. Alternative 1: Follow the rules(students) Alternative 2: Join in with others misbehaving (students) Advantages & Disadvantages of each: Choice: Opportunity Cost: