Warm-Up Activity - Scenario: You are on a desert island. Alone. You must survive. The island has only one food source that you've found: pineapples. It takes you 2 hours to harvest and cut up 1 pineapple (you have no knife!). You also want

to build your shelter. Each piece takes you 3 hours to build.

You have only 12 hours of sunlight and need to complete your tasks by sundown.

How will you spend your hours? Record your decision on your student notes.

Warm-Up-

1. Think back to the Warm Up activity. Why did you spend your hours the way you choose?

2. Whatlimits did you face? What tradeoffs did you make?

3. How does scarcity (limited resources) affect our economy and ability to produce?

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Explanation:

first day at the desert most of my hours will be spent making shelter for safety and then in the evening hunting is done for food.

Pineapple has an alternative way of opening without knife, which is to hit and roll on the ground severally exerting little force this allow the hard shell to be loosely packed and can be easily removed with hands from each box on the pineapple body.

The best way to maximize time is to do the most important and tedious work first.

Having limited tools to work with because it is a desert is a major challenge

Scarcity have put some industries on hold, many could not produce in large quantities because of Scarcity. The available resources is what is shared among many which makes its unavailable.

It affects the economy in terms of production and expected yield and return, it also affects people's standard of living.