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Grades 9-12

MCEE Presents: Financial Fitness for Life

In this personal finance and economics webinar, learn instructional strategies to create financially fit students.

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Credit, Decision Making

60 minutes

Jun 17 11-12pm ET

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Grades 9-12

MCEE Presents: Teaching High School Personal Finance

In this workshop, teachers will learn everything they need to teach Personal Finance or embed it into other lessons.

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis

60 minutes

Jun 18 10-11am ET

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Grades K-2, 3-5

Empowering Young Students During Uncertain Times

Presenter: Lynne Stover

In this economics webinar, learn three basic decision-making models and how to use them to demonstrate real- world impact.

Key Concepts: Cost/Benefit Analysis, Decision Making

60 minutes

Jun 25 7-8pm ET

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Grades 9-12

Using Active Learning Techniques to Explore the Deficit Controversies

Presenter: Tawni Hunt-Ferrarini

In this economics webinar, we will simulate activities that show how federal budget deficits and surpluses affect the national debt.

Key Concepts: Economic Functions of Government, National Debt, Technology

60 minutes

Jul 28 7-8pm ET

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Grades 9-12

Demand, Supply and Market Equilibrium: Using COVID19 and Current Events to Engage Students

Presenter: Tawni Hunt-Ferrarini

In this personal finance webinar, we will discuss what is happening to buyers and sellers in a shared, unexpected economic...

Key Concepts: Businesses and Households, Markets and Prices

60 mins

Jun 04 7-8pm ET

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Grades 9-12

Macroeconomics 302: Business Cycles- Recession vs. Depression

Presenter: Tawni Hunt-Ferrarini

In this economics webinar, teachers will examine factors that influence levels of production, income, employment, and prices.

Key Concepts: Demand, Monetary Policy, Supply

60 mins

Jul 09 7-8pm ET

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Grades 9-12

Microeconomics 204: Revenue and Costs of Production in Perfect Competition

Presenter: Theresa Fischer

In this personal finance and economics webinar, teachers will understand concepts of market power and business planning.

Key Concepts: Consumer Economics, Entrepreneurship, Incentives

60 mins

Jun 23 7-8pm ET

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Media Perception and COVID-19

Presenter: Amanda Stiglbauer

In this economics webinar, teachers will investigate researching students' use of social media and news outlets.

Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Employment and Unemployment

60 mins

May 19 7-8pm ET

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Grades 9-12

Economics 104: American Free Enterprise and the Role of Government

Presenter: Andrew Menfi

In this economics webinar, teachers will learn traditional and non-traditional methods to teach about American free enterprise.

Key Concepts: Competition, Entrepreneurs, Government Failure…

60 minutes

May 28 7-8pm ET

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Grades 9-12

NAFTA: Did Jobs Get Sucked Out of the United States?

In this economics lesson, students will analyze data to learn if jobs have increased or decreased since NAFTA was implemented.

Key Concepts: Barriers to Trade, Benefits of Trade

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Macroeconomics 305: Exchange Rates and International Trade  

Presenter: Theresa Fischer

In this economics webinar, we will discuss international trade and how exchange rates affect nations that sell to each other.

Key Concepts: Business, Comparative Advantage, Economic Institutions

60 mins

Jul 30 7-8pm ET

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Grades 9-12

Comparative Economic Systems: Exploring the Big Economic Questions

Presenter: Theodore Opderbeck

In this economics webinar, teachers will design a series of creative lesson plans about economic systems.

Key Concepts: Economic Systems, Economics

60 mins

Mar 25 7-8pm ET

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Grades 3-5

Those Golden Jeans

In this economics lesson, students will explore the types of resources needed to produce goods and services.

Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Productive Resources

45 mins

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Grades 3-5

Where Did That Pencil Come From?

In this economics lesson, students will research natural resources and illustrate how they are used to provide goods and services.

Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Productive Resources

45 mins

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Grades 3-5

All About Prices

In this economics lesson, students will explain how prices are set for goods and services.

Key Concepts: Markets and Prices

45 mins

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Grades 9-12

Just How Powerful is the Fed Chair?

In this economics lesson, students will learn about the powers of the Federal Reserve Chair.

Key Concepts: Federal Reserve, Interest, Monetary Policy

90 mins

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Grades 3-5

Learning Economics with Minecraft: Choices, Costs and Benefits

In this economics lesson, students will use cost-benefit analysis to build their own Minecraft shelter.

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost

90 mins

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Grades 3-5

Learning Economics with Minecraft: Productive Resources

In this economics lesson, students will build homes in Minecraft to learn about resource choices.

Key Concepts: Productive Resources

90 mins

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Grades K-2

Everyday Opportunities

In this economics lesson, students will use decision-making to learn the costs associated with decisions.

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost

45 mins

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Grades 6-8

What Is Money? Why Does It Have Value?

In this economics lesson, students will learn about the history of money and its 5 characteristics.

Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

90 mins

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