TEACHING PLANS

SUMMARY OF GRADE 10 ANNUAL TEACHING PLAN

Topic

Week 1
Week 2
Economic basic

Week 3
Week 4
Basic economic

concepts
Informal assessment

problem

Assessment

Topic

Assessment

Week 1
Week 2
Dynamics of markets

Informal assessment

Week 3

Term 1
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Circular flow & Quantitative elements

Formal assessment: Assignment

Term 2
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Production possibility curve

Formal assessment: project

Term 3

Week 7
Week 8
Public sector

Week 8

Week 9
Business cycles

Week 10

Formal assessment: Test 1

Week 9
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
Mid-year exam

Week 10

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Growth, development and

Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
South African economic growth and

Globalisation

development

Assessment

Informal assessment

historical view
Formal assessment: Case study

Topic

Week 1
Week 2
Unemployment

Topic

Week 3
Week 4
Labour relations

Week 7
Week 8
Public sector

Week 9
Population &

Week 10
Revision

labour force

Test
Formal: Test

Term 4
Week 5
Week 6
SAs reconstruction/

Week 7
Week 8
Revision and

Week 9
Week 10
Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

Economic

consolidation

Economic pursuits and Contemporary

Redress

economic issues

Assessment

Yearend exam

TERM 1
Week

Time

Topic

Contents

Recommended resources

2 weeks

1.

Economics, its methods and setting within the

and

(Weeks 1-2)

Economics:

field and

Its relationship with other

basic concepts

Its relationship with other sciences.

sciences.

Unpacking of Economics:

Unpacking of Economics:

-- description and elements

-- description and elements

-- branches of Economics

-- branches of Economics

-- approaches of Economics

-- approaches of Economics

The methods of Economics:

The methods of Economics:

-- positive and normative statements

-- positive and normative

-- the Scientific Method

statements

-- difficulties faced by the social sciences

-- the Scientific Method

-- the use of models

-- difficulties faced by the

The setting of Economics within the field:

social sciences

-- Accounting

-- the use of models

-- Business studies

The setting of Economics

-- Commercial law

within the field:

-- Mathematics of finance

-- Accounting

1hr 30

Relationships with other sciences and career

-- Business studies

minutes

opportunities:

-- Commercial law

-- Statistics

-- Mathematics of finance

-- Mathematics

Relationships with other

-- Information Technology

sciences and career

-- Law

opportunities:

-- Politics

-- Statistics

-- Sociology

-- Mathematics

-- Geography

-- Information Technology

45 minutes

45 minutes

45 minutes

-- Law
-- Politics
-- Sociology
-- Geography
Questionnaires Worksheets
Newspapers
Scrapbook
Internet
Textbooks
Exemplar paper/tests
Magazines
Cartoons on inflation,
balance of payments,
unemployment
Case studies
Publications,
for example, SA Yearbook
2 weeks

2.

Problems that all economies try to solve regarding the

Textbooks

Basic

Basic processes of production, consumption and

Case studies

economic

exchange, highlighting the promotion or violation of

Newspaper

problem

human rights and the environment.

Cartoons on scarcity

1hr 30

The scarcity problem:

Magazines

minutes

-- absolute and relative scarcity

Internet

(Week 3-4)

45 minutes

-- economic and free goods

Worksheets

-- alternatives and choices

Publications,

-- opportunity cost

For example, SA Yearbook

The basic processes:

-- production
-- exchange
-- consumption

45 minutes

Promotion or violation of human rights and the

environment:
-- human rights

4 weeks

-- the environment
Participants, markets (product and factor markets),

Textbooks

Circular flow &

and

Various diagrams

quantitative

Monetary and real flows in an open economy.

Newspapers

elements

The circular flow diagram:

Internet

-- the diagram

Cartoons

3.

(Week 5-8)
45 minutes

-- the interactions
1hr 30

The participants:

minutes

-- households/consumers
-- business enterprises
-- the public sector
-- the foreign sector

45 minutes

Markets - product and factor markets

The flows of the variables

 Leakages and injections

Derive GDP and GNI, define them and illuminate
1hr 30

their

minutes

importance:
-- definitions
-- composition
-- importance

2 weeks

1hr 30

(Week 9-10)

minutes

45 minutes

45 minutes

-- comparison
Reasons for business cycles: explanation and

Textbooks

Business

illustration

SARB Quarterly Bulletin

cycles

of their composition and noting their impact on the

Economic magazines

Economically vulnerable.

Internet

The phenomenon:

TV news bulletins

-- indicators

Newspaper articles

-- South African business cycles

Cartoons on economic

Time series and Composition:

growth/decline, depression,

-- cyclical patterns

inflation (topics related to

-- measuring business cycles

business cycles)

4.

Reasons:
-- exogenous reasons
-- endogenous reasons

45 minutes

Effects:
-- changes in aggregate supply and aggregate
demand

-- changes in economic growth

-- changes in employment
-- changes in price levels
-- changes in exchange rates
-- impact on the economically vulnerable

For the purpose of a term test, it is compulsory to cover the entire term content.
Daily assessment is important to monitor teaching and learning.
Formal assessment for Term 2
Teachers should issue a project to learners in the 1st term in order for them to start on their research. This will give learners ample time to
complete the project in Term 2. The project content is covered in Term 2.

TERM 2
Week

Time

3 weeks
(Week 1-3)
1hr 30
minutes

Topic

Contents

Recommended resources

1.

The market as a phenomenon (demand and supply).

Textbooks

Dynamics of

Use graphs to illustrate the establishment of prices

Graph paper

markets

and quantities.

Posters on topic

Description

Newspapers

Value, price and utility

Magazines

 Composition

TV and radio news

Types of markets:

bulletins

1hr 30

-- perfect markets

Publications, e.g. SA

minutes

-- imperfect markets

Yearbook

-- world markets (the effects of electronics)

Cartoons on scarcity

Prices:
-- demand
45 minutes

-- supply
-- price formation
Functions of markets:
-- bringing supply and demand together
-- allocating resources

3 weeks

-- self-regulatory
Description of the production possibility curves

Textbooks

Production

(reflecting on

Graphs

1hr 30

possibility

(Efficiencies), and explaining how they reconcile

Posters

minutes

curve

choice and scarcity.

Magazines

Rationale:

Newspaper articles

the position of the production possibility curve:

Cartoons

45 minutes

(Week 4-6)

2.

1hr 30

-- determined by internal factors

minutes

-- determined by external factors

maximising satisfaction from limited resources
by means of

1hr 30

indifference curves:

minutes

-- consumption
-- production

45 minutes

2 weeks

1hr 30

(Week 7-8)

minutes

effects of inefficiencies

3.

The effects (in terms of prices and quantities) of the

Budget speech Textbooks

public sectors involvement and intervention in the

Newspapers

market, with the aid of graphs.

Applicable Government

Methods of involvement:

publications, for example,

1hr 30

indirect taxes

the Department of Labour,

minutes

subsidies

and Stats SA

welfare

Cartoons on the

maximum and minimum prices

Government, taxes,

production

prices, production

Public sector

minimum wages
2 weeks

1hr 30

Revision

Revision of all topics covered during the first two

(Week

minutes

exercises

terms.

9-10)

45 minutes

and

Textbook exercises

examination
Mid-year examination
Term 2: Formal assessment
Form of assessment

Project

Mid-year examination

Marks

(2 hours)
200

50
Converted to %

Note: Project -Term 2

This project was given in Term 1. Learners should complete the project for Term 2 and submit it.
The content dealt with in Terms 1 and 2 should be revised for the mid-year examination.

TERM 3
Week
3 weeks

Time

Topic

1hr 30 minutes

(Week 1-3)

1hr 30 minutes

1.

Contents

Recommended resources

Approaches to economic development in historical

Textbooks

Growth,

and comparative context - with particular reference

Graphs

development

to

Posters

and

Africa where relevant.

Magazines

globalisation

Early economic development and emergence of

Newspapers

trade:
-- self-sufficiency and dependence on

agriculture
-- barter, trade and emergence of money
-- language, skills and learning
-- wealth, power and accumulation
45 minutes

Evolution of markets:
-- surplus production, trade and transport
development
-- the growth of towns and cities
-- specialisation of labour and emergence of
guilds
-- Mercantile Law and the development of
business forms
-- technological progress
-- growth of money and forms of saving

1hr 30 minutes

Governments and the regulation of markets

-- state involvement in trade
-- taxation and mobilisation of finance for
investment in infrastructure
-- comparative economic systems
-- public finance and the emergence of ideas
about economic policy

45 minutes

Industrial development:
-- manufacturing
-- technological progress, the mobilisation of

energy and mechanisation of production

-- urbanisation and migration
45 minutes

Evolution of economic institutions

-- limited liability companies
-- labour unions
-- financial institutions and the emergence of
joint stock companies
-- globalisation and international economic

3 weeks

cooperation
Investigation into and an outline of economic

Budget speech

South African

development in South Africa in a historical context;

Textbooks

economic growth

highlighting indigenous knowledge systems and the

Newspapers Applicable

and development

impact of colonialism and imperialism.

Government publications,

- historical view

Animal husbandry and agriculture:

e.g. from

-- characteristics

, the Department of Labour

-- factors promoting economic development

and Stats SA

2.

(Week 4-6)

45 minutes

-- factors hampering economic development

-- consequences
45 minutes

Agriculture and mining:

-- characteristics
-- factors promoting economic development
-- factors hampering economic development
-- economic consequences

45 minutes

Mining and industry:

-- characteristics
-- factors contributing to economic development
-- factors hampering economic development
-- consequences
45 minutes

Manufacturing and services:

-- characteristics
-- factors contributing to economic development
-- factors hampering economic development

2 weeks

-- consequences
Investigating and outlining the history of money and

Textbooks

The history of

banking in South Africa.

Newspapers

money and

History of money in South Africa:

Cartoons on money, banks

banking

-- early African money

Old coins

-- indigenous money

Internet

3.

(Week 7-8)
1hr 30 minutes

-- colonial money
-- imperial money
-- South African money
1hr 30 minutes

History of banking in South Africa:

-- early development
-- private banks
-- imperial banks
-- decreasing importance

2 weeks

4.

-- consolidation of banking
Composition of the South African population and

Textbooks

(Week 9-10)

Population &

labour force; explanation of the factors (such as

Newspapers, for example,

labour force

HIV/AIDS) that impact on them.

the Sunday Press

The population size:

Magazines, e.g. the

-- population growth

Financial Mail

-- natural growth rate

TV and radio news bulletins

-- the demographic cycle

Publications, e.g.

-- projected growth rates

SA Yearbook,

-- migration

Internet

The South African labour force:

Statistics: the Department

-- age composition

of Labour, SARB and Stats

-- labour force numbers

SA

45 minutes

1hr 30 minutes

-- unemployment
-- employment
-- geographic distribution
Note: Infuse factors impacting on the population and
labour force growth and composition, for example,
HIV/AIDS.

Term 3: Formal assessment

Form of assessment
Total Marks

Case study
50

Controlled Test 2 (1 hour)

100
Converted to %

A test should cover the content dealt with, within a term.

TERM 4
Week

Time

Topic

Contents

1.

Unemployment and the various approaches to solve

Textbooks

Economic

the problem. Take cognisance of the economically

Cartoons

issues

marginalised.

Magazines

of the day:

The nature of unemployment:

Newspapers

Unemployment

-- the numbers

Posters

2 weeks
(Week 1-2)
45 minutes

Recommended resources

-- unemployment rates
-- characteristics of South Africas unemployment
-- causes of unemployment
-- effects of unemployment
1hr 30 minutes

Approaches to solve unemployment:

-- growth of production
-- public works programmes
-- unemployment insurance

1hr 30 minutes
2 weeks

2.

Economically marginalised groups

Labour relations, dispute resolutions and dispute

Textbooks

(Week 3-4)

Labour relations

45 minutes

1hr 30 minutes

resolution mechanisms. Include labour rights and

Magazines

conventions within the context of the South African

Newspapers

labour market.

TV coverage on strikes and

The labour market in the South African context:

rights

-- demand for labour

Posters

-- supply of labour

Internet

-- interaction of supply and demand

Statistics: Department of

The objectives of the Labour Relations Act:

Labour and

-- self-government

Stats SA

-- Majorification
-- consultation
45 minutes

Labour rights and conventions:

-- conventions
-- labour rights
-- labour rights in South Africa
-- the Labour Relations Act (LRA)
-- the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA)
-- Compensation for Occupational for Injuries and
Diseases Act (COIDA)

1hr 30 minutes

The collective bargaining/dispute resolution

process:
-- labour unions
-- workplace forums
-- bargaining councils

-- Commission for Conciliation

-- Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)
45 minutes

The labour courts

-- powers of the Labour Court

2 weeks

-- Representation before the Labour Court.

The reconstruction of the South African economy

Textbooks

Economic

after

Magazines

redress

1994 as an effort to redress the inequalities of the

Newspapers

past.

Cartoons on population,

Human resources:

unemployment and

-- Education

migration

-- Training

Internet

-- Employment Equity

Statistics: the Department

Natural resources:

of Labour and

-- Land

Stats SA

3.

(Week 5-6)

45 minutes

1hr 30 minutes

-- Minerals and energy

-- Fishing
-- Forestry
45 minutes

Capital:
-- capital to acquire businesses
-- capital to acquire properties
-- working capital needs

1hr 30 minutes

Entrepreneurship:
-- institutions promoting entrepreneurship

-- government departments
-- formal education
-- the private sector
-- BEE
45 minutes

Democratisation of economic procedures:

-- labour legislation
-- public hearings
-- NEDLAC
-- self-regulating bodies

1hr 30 minutes

Macroeconomic adaptations:
-- economic performance
-- employment
-- income inequality
-- poverty

To be

4.

-- stability
Economic issues of the day - quantitative elements

Textbooks

incorporated

Economic

of

Magazines

across all

issues

Economics and other essentials.

Newspapers

of the day

Economic issues of the day

Cartoons on population,

The quantitative elements of economics:

unemployment and

-- derive and apply mathematical expressions

migration

-- calculate and apply co-efficient

Internet

-- interpret tables and graphs

Statistics: Department of

Other essentials:

Labour and Stats SA

the topics

1hr 30 minutes

45 minutes

-- engage in citizenship and life skills essentials

Participants in subject-related competitions and
other
2 weeks

45 minutes

(Week 7/8)

1hr 30 minutes

Revision

practical activities
Revise all topics in preparation for final examination.

45 minutes
2 weeks

Year-end examination

(Week 9/10)

SBA mark
550
Converted to 100

Term 4 formal assessment

Year-end examination
300

Total
850
400