Microsociety

Week One : Scarcity

This week our class began to learn about Microsociety. First we are studying about Scarcity, it means that not everyone has enough of what they need. In Microsociety it's a bit like the real world but can also be very exciting when your learning something knew.

Our teacher explained to us that we will be doing lots of different things in Microsociety like getting jobs, money and paying tax.

She then told us a story about Scarcity. There was a world with the right amount of everything that everyone needed, so they called it a perfect world. However, because the people of that world did not take care of it then it became sick. So it was renamed the not so perfect world.

We were then placed into groups for each of us to design our own flags. In those groups we all chose whose we thought were the best. Next there was a vote to see which flag would be the one for our class.

Last but not least, we did a challenge with different amounts of equipment to make shapes and use counters to earn points. The group that got the most points won and the winning group earned 50 points.