Basics of Econ through Google Search

1. Economic Basics through
Google Search
trade offs/opportunity costs

2. TRADE OFFS/
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
Using Google advanced search, search for “economic
trade off ” with “.edu” as the domain suffix
How many results?
How many sites on the first page seem helpful?
Which are helpful?
Why are they helpful? (copy and paste the URL’s and

3. TRADE OFFS/
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
Using Google advanced search, search for “economic
trade off ” with “.edu” as the domain suffix and
“Microso% Powerpoint .ppt” as the filetype.
How many results?
How many sites on the first page seem helpful?
Which are helpful?

4. TRADE OFFS/
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
How could you refine this search more tightly to provide
fewer and better results?
From this search, which three sites are you going to use for
your project?

5. TRADE OFFS/
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
Using Google advanced search, search for “economic
opportunity cost” with “.edu” as the domain suffix
How many results?
How many sites on the first page seem helpful?
Which are helpful?
Why are they helpful? (copy and paste the URL’s and

6. TRADE OFFS/
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
Using Google advanced search, search for “economic
opportunity cost” with “.edu” as the domain suffix and
“Microso% Powerpoint .ppt” as the filetype.
How many results?
How many sites on the first page seem helpful?
Which are helpful?

7. TRADE OFFS/
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
How could you refine this search more tightly to provide
fewer and better results?
From this search, which three sites are you going to use for
your project?
From your results, what do you think the difference is
between trade off and opportunity cost? Create a
Keynote slide with your ideas of what the differences