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Grade 9-12
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Lesson
Distribution of Income
Objective
Students will be able to:
- Explain why more productive workers usually earn more income.
- Identify at least one government policy that might influence the distribution of income.
- Analyze the impact of a government intervention in a market on the distribution of income.
- Compare measures of central tendency to analyze the distribution of income.
- Construct a Lorenz curve using an online interactive.
- Calculate the Gini coefficient to analyze income inequality.
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In this personal finance lesson, students will learn how productivity and government policy influences the distribution of income.
Resources
Procedure
Click NEARPOD VERSION: DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME PART 1 and NEARPOD VERSION: DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME PART 2 to access an interactive version of the lesson powered by Nearpod: students interact and respond to questions on their device, and teachers will see their responses in real time!