MICROSOCIETY-WEEK 1-SCARCITY

Today's lesson was about scarcity. Scarcity is when there are more people than the resources. To let us experience what scarcity is like, we did a game. Our teacher, Miss Bond, was the banker and we had to give her a square with the length of 10 centimeters, a circle with a diameter of 10 centimeters. It had to be accurate-even one millimeter out could end up to your shape being rejected! A square would give you five points, a circle would give you ten and a counter would give you five. There were six teams named A, B, C, D, E and F. We were team F. Every team was given a pack which had a pencil, some paper, a ruler, a pair of scissors, some counters and a protractor. Not all the groups had all of them and that was an example of scarcity. We could trade our things if we wanted to. We had twenty minutes to get the most points. In the end, team C won. Team D was last place and only got 5 points. We realized scarcity was very hard to cope with.