Download Human Demand Curve Activity

Human Demand Curve Activity
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. On the tennis court, label one line “Price” and one “ Quantity Demanded”.
2. Students form a line that represents a demand curve. Students need to
stand with their LEFT arm pointing to the zero for this to work.
3. Read each determinant of demand and have students literally
shift left or right by taking a step. Some situations make require
them to take several steps as the shift would be significant.
You are the demand curve for:
 ice-cream if the price of milk goes up
 cereal if the price of milk goes down
 sunscreen… in January
 candy in October
 the Iphone 5S
 T-shirts with the Geico camel saying, “ Hummmp Dayyyy!”
 Luxury cars for people who win the lottery
 Snow boots in July in GA
 Gasoline when the price of oil goes up (this should be inelastic
and will look like a straight vertical line)
 Macklemore concert tickets
 Miley Cyrus T-shirts
 Michael Jackson T-shirts right after his child molestation trial
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Michael Jackson T-shirts today
Video rental stores
The newest Call of Duty video game
Advertising slots for teen products during the show Catfish
“One Direction” t-shirts ( let them move right) ……. In a store for
women over 80
Butter when the price of margarine goes up
Mcdonald’s burgers the day after a news story about several
deaths from their meat
The Lone Ranger movie in theaters after reviews that it was not
worth the money.
Miniature colored lights in December
For clothes made by the designer that Rihanna wore to the
VMAs that everyone loved
Economics textbook today
Economics textbook the day before graduation and you have a 64
To wrap up:
Form 2 circles of students. One is inside the other. The inside
circle faces outward. The larger, outside circle, faces inward so
students are looking at one another. Tell them to answer the
question to their partner, then one circle rotates left, the other
right for 5 steps. Stop. Answer another question.
1. What are the determinants of demand?
2. What does IRDL represent?
3. Why does demand always shift right when income increases?
4. When have you been disappointed by a good? Did you
purchase it again? What impact do you think that had on that
company?
5. Name 2 products that substitute goods.
6. Name 2 products that are complimentary goods.
7. How do celebrity endorsements increase market size?