Broilers, Beans, and Bellies: Teaching Commodity Futures.

Dunham, Loren J.

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ERIC Number: EJ275258

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Publication Date: 1983-Jan

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Broilers, Beans, and Bellies: Teaching Commodity Futures.

Dunham, Loren J.

Social Education, v47 n1 p52-55 Jan 1983

People should understand what the commodity futures market is and who uses it. The commodity futures market should be studied in a high school economics course so a one-week unit was developed for students that involved them in a simulation as hedgers and speculators. (AM)

Descriptors: Economics Education, Secondary Education, Simulation, Social Studies, Units of Study

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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