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This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 43: Why Are Some Nations Wealthy? from CEE's Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics publication. In this lesson, students work in groups to examine data from several nations regarding size, natural resources, and population. Usi…

In this personal finance lesson, students will compare simple and compound interest on savings.

George Shultz, former Secretary of State, Treasury, and Labor, discusses working at age 89.

As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman reports on the aftermath of the financial crisis and how the Academy Award-winning documentary, "Inside Job" is influencing some leading economic thinkers. The film raises concerns about conflicts of interest f…

Teach your students about the benefits of being an entrepreneur. In this video a young woman starts her own business cleaning garages and does so well that she is able to expand her business. CEE's Entrepreneurship Economics publication introduces students to entrepreneurship through a reso…

In this lesson, students will learn about current trends in student borrowing and determine a reasonable debt load for hypothetical students. College costs have escalated over the past two decades, and more and more students are relying on student loans to cover the costs.  Therefore…

Paul Solman looks at the challenges older workers face trying to secure a job, let alone retire, amid the downturn.

This lesson focuses on the scarce and nonrenewable nature of fossil fuels in order to stimulate student thinking about energy conservation. It emphasizes the fact that saving energy can be good for the wallet as well as the earth's future. Students play a memory game that challenges t…

Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people’s lives. In this lesson, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies experienced a crisis in the 1960s and what helped the…

This video teaches the concepts of Budget Deficits and Public Debt. If taxes collected are less than the money spent in a given year, the government has a budget deficit. When a budget deficit occurs, the government borrows the money that it needs to finance its expenditures. For example, th…