The Nature of the Economy

The Business Cycle

Example learning journey 

The following is an example of how the resources 

could be used in a sequence of learning activities 

to explore this topic. You can decide which 

activities would work best with your class and the 

time period over which the learning takes place.  

Introducing the business cycle 

If you have completed previous work on the 

economy, students could be asked to recall the 

sectors within the economy and some of the 

relationships between them. 

Slide 2

 of the 

Presentation: The Business Cycle

 and the diagram 

in 

Illustrator: The Business Cycle

 can be used to 

introduce students to the business cycle.