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What better way to address Common Core standards in Reading Informational Text than by meeting a gentleman that changed the world of technology!

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…

By reading the book "A New Coat for Anna" students will learn about resources and trade/bartering through a young girl, Anna, whose mother wanted to buy her a coat but did not have the money.

Students will define and identify human resources and capital resources workers use in their jobs.

Newly updated! This lesson introduces students to three basic economic indicators: real GDP, the inflation rate, and the unemployment rate. The students work in small groups to develop an economic forecast, using the three basic economic indicators. They participate in a simulation activi…

Updated with 2022 MLB information! This lesson demonstrates a method for teaching students about inflation and the Consumer Price Index, using baseball players' salaries for purposes of illustration. Babe Ruth's salary from 1931 is adjusted to account for changes in the price level and is …

Updated! George Washington Carver, a great scientist, changed the economy of the South with his agricultural knowledge. This lesson will investigate how the lowly peanut kept the cotton farmers from losing everything.

Students follow each step of fiscal and monetary policy processes, to see the logic of how these tools are used to correct economic instability.

Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the standard of living. Then students will visit one of th…

Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the standard of living. Then students will visit one of th…