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

Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, the students examine transportation and its impact on our nat…

Students learn about incentives for alternative energy programs and the role played by non-price determinants in energy choices.

COMPELLING QUESTION Why do politicians disagree on economic issues -- isn't there one right answer? Students work in small groups and are assigned a version of diary excerpts written by a student intern working for a policymaking legislator. Half the groups read a diary that f…

Updated with new statistics! The students examine economic data in order to predict the results of presidential elections.

The students work in small groups that represent households. Each household answers questions about stocks and stock markets. For each correct answer, a household earns shares of stock. At the end of the game, the groups that answered all questions correctly receive a certificate good for…

In this economics lesson, students will identify conditions in the economy to learn about the Great Depression.

Students look at definitions for the three categories of federal spending and using the internet locate examples of each. They then categorize a list of expenditures as government purchases or transfer payments. Given federal budget data, students analyze the pattern of change that has…

In this economics activity, students will compare immediate benefits to long-term costs of fiscal stimulus during recessions.

In this economics interactive, users will play a drag and drop interactive to find the difference between Keynesian theory and New Classical theory.