Economics deepens. Students learn how resource companies are structured and valued, how commodity prices move and why, what a genuinely rewarding career looks like in practice, and which resources will define WA's next chapter.
Year 8 puts a price on everything. Across four units, students find out who actually owns a mine and where the money flows, track live commodity prices to watch demand and supply move in real time, test what makes a working life genuinely good, and back their own evidence-based forecast of WA's next big commodity. It matters because economics taught through the industry outside their own window stops being abstract — and this is exactly the age when ideas about money, work and worth start becoming personal.
Every unit arrives classroom-ready — full lesson sequences, slides, student workbooks and assessment rubrics, aligned to the revised Western Australian Curriculum, mandated from 2026.
"How do resource companies actually work — and who profits from what's in the ground?"
Ownership structures, shareholders, royalties and where profit actually flows — the market system that sits around every WA operation.
"Why do commodity prices rise and fall — and what does that mean for every person in WA?"
Demand, supply and price signals taught through live commodity charts: why iron ore's price moves, who reacts, and what it means for jobs. Students track one commodity across the term.
"What makes a genuinely good career — and does the resources sector deliver it?"
What makes a good working life — income, purpose, conditions, wellbeing — tested against the documented reality of resource careers.
"Which WA resources will matter most in 20 years — and how do you identify them now?"
Students research which WA commodities the 2040s will demand — lithium, rare earths, hydrogen — and build an evidence-based forecast of their own.
One page of guidance per unit. Everything else is done.
Lesson sequences, decks, workbooks and rubrics included.
Aligned to the revised WA Curriculum every school teaches from 2026.
Worker videos, site content and industry panels arranged through the program.