Learning goals:

• Represent and interpret data on a line graph.
• Describe possible causes of oscillating price, demand, and supply by comparing simulated large and small hog farms.
• Write an editorial article based on simulation trends.

Student Challenge:

• Investigate different types of hog farms and write an editorial article with findings.

Curricular Connections:

• Math: Representing and interpreting data
• Reading: Describing connections among ideas
• National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: Characteristics of a market economy, how people deal with scarcity of resources, how consumers react to rising/falling prices of goods.