Update

Economics

Standard 12.1.1 Examine the casual relationship between scarcity and the need for choices.

Basically, it is because of scarcity that we as consumers must make choices. For example, over six million people travel into London each day and they make decisions about when to travel, whether to use the bus, the tube, to walk or cycle or work from home. Millions of decisions are taken, many of them are habitual – but somehow on most days, people get to work on time and they get home too in safety if not in comfort! This is a great way to explain this standard because although our options are somewhat limited, people still got to where they had to get on time.

Standard 12.8.2 Describe the roles of broadcast, print, and electronic media, including the internet, as means of communication in American politics.

In the MyLife Project we use these means for pretty much everything. We use the internet, social media, and emails to communicate with each other. If I need something from David or Mathew for example, I can easily text them, or tell them something on some means of social media. This is also similar to how politicians use TV and the internet to communicate their respective positions on real time issues. We use print as well to communicate standards to each other, and to pass down information to each other.