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Vincent van Gogh's 'Flower Beds in Holland'
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Farmers sell crops that they grow. Pretend you are a farmer. On a sheet of paper list two crops you would like to grow on your farm. |
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Oh no! You only have land to grow one crop. You have to make a choice. Circle the crop you would like to grow most. The crop you didn’t choose to grow is your opportunity cost. Put a line through that crop. |
Now turn your paper over and draw a picture of your farm with the one crop you circled growing in a garden.
| Click on the picture to find a picture painted by a famous painter named Vincent van Gogh. | |
| This picture shows a farmer on his farm in Holland. He is growing a special crop on his farm. | www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/fields/gogh.flower-beds-holland.jpg |
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Farmers have only so much land. Therefore, they cannot grow everything they might want to grow. |
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| Because they can't grow everything, farmers must choose to grow the crops that will suit them best. When farmers choose to grow one crop, they cannot grow another. |  |
| The crop they did not choose to grow is their opportunity cost. | |
Click on the picture to see the picture painted by Vincent van Gogh again. This farmer could have grown only blue flowers. He made a choice between growing only blue flowers and growing flowers of many different colors. What did he choose? What was his opportunity cost?
