HSC Economics

Presents

The Complete Guide to HSC Economics

This site has been designed to assist HSC Economics students in their study. It includes information related to each topic in both the Preliminary and HSC courses, including key definitions, and links to related sites.

Index

Preliminary HSC Topics	HSC Topics
Topic 1 - Introduction to Economics	Topic 1 - The Global Economy
Topic 2 - Consumers and Businesses	Topic 2 - Australia's Place in the Global Economy
Topic 3 - Markets	Topic 3 - Economic Issues
Topic 4 - Labour Markets	Topic 4 - Economic Policies and Management
Topic 5 - Financial Markets
Topic 6 - Government in the Economy

Media Sources

The media can play an important role in economics. There are many articles published everyday that are related to economics. Students should have a wide range of sources that are continually updated. These sources should be from newspapers, periodicals and the Internet, in order to be up to date with the ever changing world of economics. Students need to gather this wide genre of information to support arguments, as well as being able to apply current examples. The Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review sites offer valuable articles relating to economics daily, as well as providing an archive search to find previous articles. The Economist is a periodical that is regularly updated and provides articles on current economic events from around the world. The media can be an invaluable source of information in your study of economics.

Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/
Australian Financial Review http://www.afr.com.au/
The Economist http://www.economist.com/

NSW Board of Studies

The Board of Studies site provides a copy of the economics syllabus, support documents, a sample examination paper and past exam papers and comments on these papers. This is an excellent source of information for students who can find out what the examiners are expecting from them.

· http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/syllabus2000_lista.html

· http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/hsc2005exams/index2.html#e

Economics Articles

The National Library of Australia has a number of sources of economic articles and statistics on its website at

· http://pandora.nla.gov.au/subject/3

Economics Workbook for Students

Information on an excellent workbook of economic skills and activities can be found at

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~gep/econs.htm

Economics Teaching Resources for Teachers

There are excellent teaching resources available at

Greenacre Educational Publications at

· http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~gep

The VCTA provides a range of teaching resources that are useful for economics teachers throughout Australia not just for the Victorian economics course.

· http://www.vcta.asn.au/html/classroom/economics/economics.htm

Cambridge University Press have introduced what are likely to become the most popular economics texts for students studying economics in NSW. The HSC and Preliminary textbooks have integrated content and activities in an interesting, colourful and educational sound text.

Information about these economics textbooks can be found at:

· http://www.cambridge.edu.au/Education/Secondary/Series.asp?SubjectID=34&SeriesID=211

Online Economics Lessons

A new approach to online learning in both economics and business studies is provided by creative classroom. It provides audio-visual lessons on line that not only teach you about the subjects but also teach you how to learn the content in an interesting manner.

· http://www.creativeclassroom.com.au

Go to Preliminary Topic 1 - Introduction to Economics

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Last modified 14 October 2006
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