Trade-Off Posters for Economics Vocabulary

A set of posters defines the economics term trade-off and illustrates it with three everyday examples.

Year groups: Lower Secondary, Primary, Years 6–9
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Oct 01, 2021

Subject: Social Studies
Topic: Trade-Off, Economics
Resource types: Posters, Classroom Decor
Preparation: Print ready

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About this resource

The economics term trade-off is defined on a classroom poster as giving up something you don't want in order to get something you do want, and the definition is illustrated with three everyday examples: paying more for gas with a bigger truck, losing sleep to play video games late, and destroying animal habitat by building on wetlands. The same definition and examples are repeated across a full-page poster format and a smaller quote-style poster format, giving teachers two display sizes for the same content. Because the set is a definition-and-example display rather than a worksheet, it is intended to be posted as a reference during an economics unit rather than completed by students. The file is credited to Sheltered Language Resources, 2019.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Define the economic concept of trade-off as giving up one thing to gain another.
Identify real-world examples of trade-offs across consumer, personal, and environmental decisions.

Teaching tips

Post the large-format poster as a permanent classroom reference during an economics or decision-making unit.
Use the three built-in examples (truck and gas, late video games, wetland development) as discussion starters before asking students to generate their own trade-off examples.
Pair the poster with a personal decision-making activity, since the definition is general enough to apply beyond the three given examples.

Skills covered

Economic vocabulary - students read a definition of trade-off and connect it to three worked examples spanning consumer spending, personal time, and land use.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

Trade-off
Economics vocabulary
Opportunity cost

Topics

Trade-Off Economics Lower Secondary Teaching Resource Posters

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