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With the start of the new year in 2002, the 12 members of the European Union launched a single currency across their borders, replacing individual country currencies and singling out the Euro as their one shared monetary denomination. Marketplace, a daily economics news program heard …

Adjust the numbers in this interactive to see if you can balance the budget. This interactive is intended for use with our National Budget Simulation lesson plan.

In this personal finance lesson, students explore budget constraints by solving a contextual problem.

This lesson uses the Better Money Habits video Steps to Help You Get Out of Debt to explain the concept of debt.

International trade allows countries to buy and sell both domestic and foreign goods, as well as services and financial assets. A country's transactions are summarized in a set of accounts called the "Balance of Payments (BOP)." Students will learn how to record transactions in the BOP acco…

When working online, children aren't usually aware that parents have to enter a credit card in order to pay for apps on mobile devices. In this lesson, students will learn how to be responsible when downloading apps. Although many apps are free, even free apps can have costs because many com…

Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.

In this economics lesson, students will examine political forces influencing the federal budget.

Students will learn how productivity and government policy influences the distribution of income and create and analyze Lorenz curves and the Gini coefficient.

In this economics activity, students will find a combination of policies that match their values and priorities and set a budget.