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IB Economics • Unit 4

Global Economy Complete Teaching Pack

Make international economics feel connected, current and genuinely global.

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Connect models to a changing world

The Global Economy Teaching Pack helps students understand how trade, exchange rates, protectionism, integration and development connect countries, firms, governments and households.

Students work with diagrams, calculations, stakeholder impacts and current international examples. Embedded revision links provide digital flashcards and short quizzes for each topic, while Key to the Concept activities help students retrieve and connect learning across the unit.

Think internationally

Activities repeatedly ask students to move from model to consequence: how a tariff changes prices and welfare, why exchange-rate movements create winners and losers, or why a development policy may succeed in one context and struggle in another.

Complete Unit 4 teaching coverage

The PPT pack covers all Unit 4 syllabus topics, including HL material, with explanations, diagrams and opportunities to apply and evaluate economic ideas.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Built to be useful from the first lesson

Editable Classroom Slides

Complete lesson sequences covering the relevant IB Economics unit, with clear explanations, diagrams, activities, application and exam-focused questioning.

Key to the Concept

Collaborative retrieval and problem-solving activities integrated throughout the course, with access to the corresponding digital interactive versions.

Digital Flashcards + Topic Quizzes

Slides link directly to online revision pages for each topic, giving students quick access to digital flashcards and short retrieval quizzes for independent practice, homework and lesson review.

Real-World Economics

Contemporary examples and news-based contexts help students connect theory to real economic events and strengthen application skills.

Exam Thinking

Calculations, diagrams, explanation, analysis and evaluative questioning are embedded throughout to build the reasoning required in IB Economics assessments.

Policy Analysis: Causal Chains

The relevant Causal Chains collection is included, helping students trace economic change, explain every link and test the conditions behind policy outcomes.

WHY IT MATTERS

Designed for deeper thinking and better learning

Retrieve

Bring prior knowledge back into working memory and make connections across the course.

Explain

Develop precise economic reasoning and confident use of economic terminology.

Apply

Transfer theory to unfamiliar contexts, real-world events and new data.

Connect

See relationships between models, concepts, stakeholders and policy outcomes.

Evaluate

Question assumptions, trade-offs, effectiveness and the conditions that shape outcomes.

PREVIEW

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COURSE COVERAGE

What's inside the collection

✓4.1 Benefits of international trade (includes HL-only subtopics and calculation)
✓4.2 Types of trade protection (includes HL-only calculations)
✓4.3 Arguments for and against trade control/protection
✓4.4 Economic integration
✓4.5 Exchange rates (includes HL-only subtopic)
✓4.6 Balance of payments (includes HL-only subtopics)
✓4.7 Sustainable development (includes HL-only subtopic)
✓4.8 Measuring development
✓4.9 Barriers to economic growth and/or economic development
✓4.10 Economic growth and/or economic development strategies
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Department • up to 5 teachers

For use by up to five teachers working at the same school. Resources may be shared among those teachers for use with their own classes, but may not be distributed outside the purchasing school or uploaded publicly.

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