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Build an Economy Interactive
Students allocate scarce resources across competing sectors and examine how investment choices influence an economy over successive years. They test trade-offs, adjust allocations and interpret the resulting indicators rather than assuming every objective can be maximised simultaneously. The full interactive is available to licensed Education Universe users.
Years 10–12Explorer
Learning outcomes
- Allocate finite resources among competing priorities
- Identify opportunity costs of economic decisions
- Evaluate changes in economic outcomes over time
Teaching guidance
Ask learners to justify their initial budget allocation before running the simulation, then compare its results with an alternative strategy.
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