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The Unintended Consequences Game
Kind of Activity:
Group Work
Objective:
To apply the concepts of the book to other areas of life, allowing students to more fully grasp one of the main themes of the text—that “dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle, causes.”
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2
Structure:
The crime drop associated with abortion is what economists call an “unintended consequence.” In this case, the reduction of crime was an “unintended benefit” of abortion. But unintended consequences can also be negative; the rise in teacher cheating was an unintended drawback to implementing high-stakes testing,...
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