AP Economics and
AP Environmental Science
K. Gustafson and K. Alan
Farmington High School,
Farmington, Michigan
Economics and the Environment
Why?
• Shared Topics
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Property Rights
Externalities
Tragedy of the Commons
Land Use
Externalities
• Mining, fracking, fishing, rangelands
• Cross Curricular Connection
• Real-World
• Fun!
Guest Speakers
• Climate change
debate
– Environmentalist
– Economist
Rouge Factory Tour,
Henry Ford Museum
Field Trip
http://www.hfmgv.org/rouge
/index.aspx
•See student guided handout
–http://gusonomics.wiki.farmingto
n.k12.mi.us/MCSS+Conference
Tragedy of the Commons
• Pepperidge Farm
Goldfish on Overhead
• Hershey Kisses
• John Stossel’s GREED
dvd (money bowl)
CO2 Emissions
• Emissions trading game
How Clean is Clean?
• Shiawassee River (Rouge
River)
Land Use Planning
Private Property and Endangered
Animals
• http://gusonomics.wiki.farmington.k12.mi
.us/Economics+and+the+Environment
• https://apes.wiki.farmington.k12.mi.us/Ho
me