Five sessions on the forces every business owner faces and none of them control.

A chain bakery opens two blocks from Kettle & Crumb. A recession empties the cinema on weeknights. The city puts bike lanes past the bike shop — good news for one business, bad for another.

Your student learns where a mixed economy actually sits, what a business cycle does to different businesses differently, and how a changing town rewards and punishes. Then recommends how each business on Alder Street should respond.

If your student has done the Trade-Offs economics line, this is the same forces seen from inside the shop.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Written by a licensed K-12 business teacher with more than thirteen years in the classroom. Built to be taught by a parent with no background in the subject.