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Grades 9-12
Stringing Together Supply and Demand: A Tactile Approach to Graphing
In this economics lesson, students use a yarn manipulative activity to accurately illustrate changes in supply and demand curves while...
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Grades 9-12
Risky Spending and Teen Gambling
In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about the risks of sports gambling.
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Personal Finance, Risk Managment/Insurance
Grades 3-5
Watts Up With Electricity Prices?
In this elementary lesson, students focus on the economic concepts of price, goods, and services. Knowledge is applied by comparing...
Key Concepts: Circular Flow, Circular Flow
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Buying Electric Appliances - Watt You Need to Know
In this lesson, students learn about the importance of energy costs when considering household budgeting decisions. They also consider the...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 3-5
Incentivizing Energy Conservation at Our School
Students work together to identify the benefits and costs of conservation. Next, working in groups, students develop two different incentive...
Grades 6-8, 9-12
So, You Want to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?
In this economics lesson, students take on the role of budget manager for a power company interested in building a...
Grades 6-8, 9-12
The Future of Batteries
In this high school economics lesson, students take part in an interactive simulation that demonstrates how batteries operate, participate in...
Grades 3-5
From Power Plant to PlayStation™: Electricity’s Journey from Producer to Consumer
In this elementary economics and science lesson, students learn how productive resources are combined to create electricity.
Key Concepts: Factors of Production
Grades 6-8, 9-12
The Costs and Benefits of Hosting the Olympics
In this economics lesson, students will determine the costs and benefits of hosting the Olympic games and create a poster...
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Willy Wonka’s Whimsical Entrepreneurship
In this lesson, students discuss the characteristics of an entrepreneur and how those characteristics apply to Willy Wonka. In groups,...
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Willy Wonka Allocates Golden Tickets
In this lesson, students review scarcity and ways to allocate scarce resources (like golden tickets), taking the perspective of the...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Allocation, Allocation…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
How Does One Energy Policy - a Ban on Gas-powered Cars - Affect So Many People Differently?
In this economics lesson, students will use a jigsaw activity to analyze the effects of a single energy policy -...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
Buying on Credit
This personal finance lesson discusses the costs of credit in a manner that helps students calculate those costs and integrate...
Grades 9-12
Income Inequality in the U.S.: What Can Be Done?
In this lesson, students evaluate income inequality in the United States and play a short board game to understand the...
Grades 9-12
Global Income Inequality: What are the Causes and Consequences?
In this lesson, students recreate the relative income inequalities of real countries with a hands-on activity and work in jigsaw...
Grades 9-12
The Great Tulip Boom: Economics in World History
Why would people choose to spend a fortune on a single tulip bulb? In this economics lesson, students participate in...
