PA High School Economics Curriculum

PA High School Economics Topics

• Scarcity and Choice: Covers the fundamental economic problem, opportunity cost, and decision-making frameworks that underpin all economic reasoning.
• Supply and Demand: Explores how markets set prices, how shifts in supply and demand affect equilibrium, and how consumers and producers respond.
• Market Structures: Examines competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and other market forms and how each affects prices and output.
• Government and the Economy: Addresses the roles of fiscal policy, regulation, public goods, and externalities in shaping economic outcomes.
• Macroeconomics: Covers GDP, unemployment, inflation, the business cycle, and monetary policy as measured by national indicators.
• International Trade: Reviews comparative advantage, trade barriers, exchange rates, and the impact of globalization on the Pennsylvania and US economies.
• Personal Finance: Focuses on budgeting, saving, investing, credit, and financial planning skills relevant to everyday life.

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Aligned to PA High School Economics Curriculum

Every lesson and practice set in StudyPug's high school Economics course is built around the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Economics, so the vocabulary, concepts, and sequence mirror what Pennsylvania students encounter in their coursework throughout the school year.