>>46655086They were fighting each other over a fake trading thing because it was the American Colony unit, and every kid had to run through a person's life by roleplaying as a colonial settler. Two kids both wanted to be woodworkers, and they were getting into fights about how they were stealing each other's ideas for shit like selling bird houses, and so I explained to them that whichever person does better at marketing and making "quality goods" (aka advertising posters for the weekly "trade days" we set up for the unit), will be successful, and whoever doesn't, won't, and how that's a realistic part of colonial life.
They didn't understand why that made sense, so I showed them Supply and Demand graphs and shit, and then they kind of understood, but then they started coming up to my desk and showing me Supply and Demand graphs that were hand-made and modified to show how, actually, demand for their product (which was cool and "had rizz") actually operated under the original S/D chart, whereas the other kid (who was labeled "Lame Woodworker") actually had negative demand. Wild class.
