QR Challenge: ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN AN ECONOMY

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1.How can the government act as a producer?	By producing public goods, merit goods, operating key industries and acting as natural monopolies
2. 2.What are the main aims of a government?	Full employment, Price Stability, Economic Growth and Development, Income Redistribution, BOP stability
3. 3.Define and give 2 examples of public goods.	lighthouse, street lights
4. 4. Why does the government act as an employer?	to operate key industries
5. 5. Define full employment	most people in labour force have a job
6. 6. Why does a government seek full employment?	avoid wastage of resources, avoid high unemployment costs maintain good living standards and social peace.
7. 7. Define price stability.	low and stable inflation
8. 8. Why is price stability important?	eases planning and decision making, prevents erosion of money value, maintains international competitiveness
9. 9. Explain what is meant by economic growth and development.	growth: rise in real GDP per capita; development: growth maintained for future generations and national income used to maximise social welfare.

 

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