Economics

This economic lesson was informative, interesting and enjoyable. We learned that economics is about trade and that trade is how economics emerged, in order to satisfy ones want. We learned that we can be proud of Mississippi for being in the top 10 of economic education, and that most of the time we are in the top 5. We learned that economics is not money and that money is a vehicle to make trade easier. Dr. Smith had us to write the answers to our questions, becasuse writing is the completion of thinking. This underscored to me how valuable writing is and that it should be use often in the education of our youths and it is good for therapy also with the elderly who have been through traumatic situations, as the recent tornado in Louisville, MS. We were given the activity, "How does a waitress make a pencil?" a very enlightening activity to use with students. Many lessons can be built on this. Its takes 3 different countries to produce the needed materials to manufacture this common, but complicated and beautiful item.