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Super Starter Sunday - Blockbusters

Sunday, July 12, 2009

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As the end of term is fast approaching, this week’s Super Starter Sunday activities will be the last until September. I am sure many of us remember Blockbuster, here we will put an economics twist on the game show. This activity could be used as a starter, plenary or an end of term lesson.

Split the class in half giving each team a colour. The red team have to get from top to bottom and the blue team have to get from left to right, (not necessarily in a straight line). The teacher begins by asking a question for the letter in the middle of the grid. Pupils must put hand up and not shout out answer (tell pupils that if they shout out, it will go straight to the other team to guess). The correct answer wins the team a blob of their colour in the square, that team then chooses the next letter. The first team to get from one side to the other wins (can be a zigzag line).
I would suggest starting with a 4x4 grid.

Some example questions

What ‘N’ is also known as external costs?
What ‘I’ is businesses spending on capital goods?
What ‘I’ occurs when prices rise?
What ‘B’ is the big problem in economics?
What ‘O’ occurs when choices are made?
What ‘O’ is the market structure where there are a few large firms in the market?
What ‘M’ is the use of interest rates by the government?
What ‘M’ is the market structure where there is just one seller?
What ‘S’ is the opposite of spending?
What ‘F’ is the governments use of taxation and government spending?
What ‘E’ is the term used to explain when demand is very responsive to a change in price?
What ‘E’ can be exploited when a firms grows in size?