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K-2, 3-5
What is Competition?
Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange …
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Where's the Beef?
Students explore meat consumption statistics, an indicator of a nation's relative prosperity and standard…

Clipping Coupons
In this lesson, students will calculate savings for different products when using coupons. They will also deci…

3-5, 6-8
Taxation without Representation?
This lesson will take students through the series of tax acts that were enacted by the British government and …
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3-5, 6-8
What's My Interest?
Students explore the concept of interest by means of two activities. The first, a simple activity with jellybe…
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Banks, Bankers, Banking
Students will demonstrate understanding of the processes associated with banking by role- playing as customers,…

K-2, 3-5
What Are Incentives?
Students will understand that incentives are used to encourage them to make good choices. After identifying in…
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Marketplace: Let's Go Euro!
With the start of the new year in 2002, the 12 members of the European Union launched a single currency…

Improving on the Original
What makes something worth marketing? This lesson focuses on the distinction between marketing a new product o…

CPI- The Crystal Ball
Governments and other financial organizations are constantly measuring trends in the economy to try to predict…