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Grades 9-12
Buying Electric Appliances - Watt You Need to Know
In this lesson, students learn about the importance of energy costs when considering household budgeting decisions. They also consider the...
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Grades 3-5
Incentivizing Energy Conservation at Our School
Students work together to identify the benefits and costs of conservation. Next, working in groups, students develop two different incentive...
Key Concepts: Cost/Benefit Analysis, Economic Incentives
Grades 9-12
So, You Want to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?
In this economics lesson, students take on the role of budget manager for a power company interested in building a...
Key Concepts: Capital Resources, Decision Making, Factors of Production…
Grades 9-12
The Future of Batteries
In this high school economics lesson, students take part in an interactive simulation that demonstrates how batteries operate, participate in...
Key Concepts: Economic Efficiency, Productivity
Grades 3-5
From Power Plant to PlayStation™: Electricity’s Journey from Producer to Consumer
In this elementary economics and science lesson, students learn how productive resources are combined to create electricity.
Key Concepts: Consumers, Human Capital, Productive Resources
Grades 6-8, 9-12
The Costs and Benefits of Hosting the Olympics
In this economics lesson, students will determine the costs and benefits of hosting the Olympic games and create a poster...
Key Concepts: Cost/Benefit Analysis
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Willy Wonka’s Whimsical Entrepreneurship
In this lesson, students discuss the characteristics of an entrepreneur and how those characteristics apply to Willy Wonka. In groups,...
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurship
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Willy Wonka Allocates Golden Tickets
In this lesson, students review scarcity and ways to allocate scarce resources (like golden tickets), taking the perspective of the...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Scarcity
Grades 9-12
How Does One Energy Policy - a Ban on Gas-powered Cars - Affect So Many People Differently?
In this economics lesson, students will use a jigsaw activity to analyze the effects of a single energy policy -...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost
Grades 9-12
Buying on Credit
This personal finance lesson discusses the costs of credit in a manner that helps students calculate those costs and integrate...
Key Concepts: Credit Card, Interest, Secured Debt…
Grades 9-12
The Great Tulip Boom: Economics in World History
Why would people choose to spend a fortune on a single tulip bulb? In this economics lesson, students participate in...
Key Concepts: Demand, Financial Risk, Rate of Return
Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Specialization using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
In this economics lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that reinforces the concepts of specialists/entrepreneurs, workers, capital resources, and products.
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurship, Productive Resources, Specialization
Grades 3-5
Teach Producers and Consumers using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
This economics and personal finance lesson takes students through the process of producing a good to sell to a fictional...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Income, Producers
Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Human Capital using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
In this economics and personal finance lesson, students will examine the human capital of Squirrel, Sloth, and Mr. Peacock and...
Key Concepts: Human Capital, Productivity, Specialization
Grades 9-12
Personal Finance Looping Cards: Spiraling Reality into the Classroom
Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.
Key Concepts: Insurance, Money Management/Budgeting, Personal Finance Economics
Grades 9-12
Can We End Housing Insecurity?
Students compare the economic costs and benefits of helping people who are experiencing housing insecurity and consider the ethical implications.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Role of Government
