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Production Possibility Frontier Interactive
Explore a draggable production possibility frontier to distinguish efficient, inefficient and currently unattainable production choices. Students investigate outward shifts, trade-offs and increasing opportunity costs, then test their understanding in a quiz. The full interactive is available to licensed Education Universe users.
Years 11–12ExplorerOpportunity Cost
Learning outcomes
- Locate efficient and inefficient production points
- Explain increasing opportunity costs along a frontier
- Identify causes of outward shifts in productive capacity
Teaching guidance
Ask learners to predict whether each point is feasible and justify the opportunity cost before checking the graph.
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