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Money is what we use to show what goods or services are worth. When you do work, you are paid with money. When you sell something, the buyer gives you money. Sometimes it’s a lot of money and sometimes it’s just a little money. How much money you are given depends on how mu…

In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a variety of alternatives from which to choose. They learn about the importance of price information in making their decisions. First, students gather information on…

Students explore fiscal policy remedies used by the federal government to reduce volatile fluctuations in the business cycle.

In this lesson, updated with 2023 statistics, students learn about the challenges of the federal debt and play the Fiscal Ship simulation.

In this economics lesson, students learn about behavioral economics to understand individual behavior.

In this economics lesson, students will analyze charts and proposals to learn about the issues facing Social Security.

In this economics lesson, students will examine concerns about balancing the budget and the role of the federal government.

In this personal finance lesson, students will investigate opportunity cost by using slope.

This lesson focuses on a group of nineteenth century industrial entrepreneurs described in many history books as Robber Barons. It calls upon students to analyze the activities of these entrepreneurs in order to draw conclusions about the innovations and business practices for which they …

This is the final lesson in a series of lessons that introduces students to the economic data that economists use to assess the health of the economy. This lesson focuses on assessing the health of the economy using the content learned in the previous lessons, and introduces the role of mone…