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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: Allocation, AP Microeconomics, Barriers to Trade…
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...
Key Concepts: Allocation, AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts…
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...
Key Concepts: AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts, Cost-Benefit Analysis…
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 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 6-8, 9-12
Economic Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks
In this economics activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.
Key Concepts: AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts…
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
Grades 9-12
Should I Join the Sweatshop Boycott?
In Lesson #8 of the "Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues" curriculum, students study primary sources to learn about the choices...
Grades 9-12
Can You Conduct Research Ethically?
In Lesson #2 of the "Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues" curriculum, students learn about positive and normative economics and how...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
Is Efficiency Ethical?
In Lesson #5 of the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students role-play to understand both the power and limits...
Key Concepts: Scarcity
