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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
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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Economic Incentives in Our Community
Students will identify positive and negative economic incentives used in their communities to encourage people…

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…