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Grades 6-8, 9-12
Women's History Month: Economics and Personal Finance Bell-Ringers
Celebrate Women's History Month in your economics and personal finance classroom! Use these 10 quotes by famous women to inspire...
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Grades 6-8, 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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
Income Inequality in the U.S.: What Can Be Done?
In this lesson, students evaluate income inequality in the United States and play a short board game to understand the...
Grades 9-12
Global Income Inequality: What are the Causes and Consequences?
In this lesson, students recreate the relative income inequalities of real countries with a hands-on activity and work in jigsaw...
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: Factors of Production, Productive Resources, Productive Resources…
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...
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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades K-2, 3-5
Valentine's Day Capital Resources Activity
Use an arts and crafts activity, like making Valentine's Day hearts, to teach students about human and capital resources.
Grades K-2, 3-5
Decision Making with "Sam and the Lucky Money"
Using the children's book, "Sam and the Lucky Money", students learn about Chinese New Year and practice decision-making skills using...
Grades 9-12
Should Private Companies Operate Prisons?
Students analyze and rank the four general goals of corrections to help them determine their personal beliefs about what prisons...
Key Concepts: Incentives
Grades 9-12
Can You Be Fashionable and Ethical?
Students “produce” blue jeans and make business choices about production to simulate the decision of changing from more expensive, but...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
What is the Most Ethical Way to Fund Public Schools?
Students analyze documents, create a school-funding graphic organizer, and write an email to their state representative with their plan to...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
Federal Budget: The Fiscal Ship Game
In this lesson, updated with 2023 statistics, students learn about the challenges of the federal debt and play the Fiscal...
Key Concepts: Crowding Out, Debt, Economic Institutions
Grades 9-12
Should We Allow a Market for Transplant Organs?
Should you be able to sell your kidney? Students explore the ethics and economics of organ donation while learning about...
Grades 9-12
Can You Allocate Ethically?
In Lesson #4 from the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students work in groups to analyze allocation methods, apply...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Allocation, Allocation…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Using Children’s Literature to Teach About Economics and Enterprising Women
Teach both Women's History and foundational concepts via the lives of diverse, inspirational figures.
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs, PPC, PPC
