# Choice

A group of young teenagers go to the amusement park and are faced with difficult decisions. From the series: Trade-offs From teacher's guide included with film: "This lesson introduces the important concept of opportunity cost. The program is about children who, like everyone else, have limited amounts of resources such as time and money. The children recognize they must frequently choose between the different ways they can use their re-sources. Inevitably, choosing one thing means giving up the opportunity to choose something else. Opportunity cost is defined as what must be given up when one makes a choice. Considering opportunities that must be given up is an important aid in systematic decision-making, and repeated use of this concept will be made in later lessons. BEFORE THE PROGRAM Tell your students that this program is about making choices. In making choices, the girls and boys in the program realize they can't have every-thing. Ask your students to look for the choices the young people make and what they give up. PROGRAM SUMMARY Gordon and his friends receive a trip to an amusement park and $6 worth of tickets. However, Gordon wants to go to a ball game played at the same time as the trip and must choose between the two. He chooses the amusement park but finds that he and his friends face other choices when they get there. Harold has to decide whether to use his tickets for food or for rides, Loretta whether to use her last film exposure for a picture of Julia or…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1978
- By: Agency for Instructional Television (AIT), Educational Film Center
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/203128_Choice)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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