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Grades 9-12
NEW! 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
Marginal Revolution University
Grades 9-12
Valentine's Day Demand Interactive
Key Concepts: Demand, Quantity Demanded
Grades K-2, 3-5
Valentine's Day Resources
Use an arts and crafts activity, like making Valentine's Day hearts, to teach students about human and capital resources.
Key Concepts: Capital Resources, Human Resources
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Valentine's Day Greeting Card Production
Working in small groups, students participate in a production simulation (making Valentine's Day greeting cards) to determine the effects of...
Key Concepts: Costs of Production, Diminishing Marginal Utility, Productive Resources…
Grades 9-12
NEW! 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, Opportunity Cost, Profit…
Grades 9-12
NEW! 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: Costs of Production, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Externalities…
Grades 9-12
NEW! What Can We Do About Pollution?
Students play charades to mimic noise pollution and consider the question "what can be done if someone's choices are putting...
Key Concepts: Externalities, Markets and Prices, Role of Government
Grades 9-12
NEW! 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: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost, Role of Government
Grades 9-12
Deceptive Advertising: Crossing the Line - Updated!
Businesses use advertising to tell consumers about the goods and services they are selling. Businesses hope that their advertisements will...
Key Concepts: Advertising, Business Costs and Revenues, Economic Institutions…
Content Partner
Grades 3-5
Shark Scam: Money Tales
Students read about two scheming sharks and decide were to invest their money.
Key Concepts: Financial Investments, Goods and Services, Money
Content Partner
Grades 6-8, 9-12
PBS-NOVA Financial Lab
Managing money is hard! Even when you know what you should do, it can be hard to actually do it....
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Opportunity Cost, Saving
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: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Roles of Government
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks
In this personal finance and economics activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.
Grades 9-12
Supply and Demand - Game
In this economics game, students will play through a board game learning about supply and demand.
Key Concepts: Demand, Determinants of Demand, Determinants of Supply…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Market Structures Activity
In this economics drag and drop, students will learn about the different types of market structures.
Key Concepts: Competition and Market Structures
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Keynes vs. Classical Tool
In this economics interactive, users will play a drag and drop interactive to find the difference between Keynesian theory and...
Key Concepts: Keynesian Theory, New Classical Theory
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Comparative Advantage Interactive
In this economics interactive, students will be able to explore the benefits of specialization and trade.
Key Concepts: Comparative Advantage
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Product Differentiation: Design and Advertise a Shoe
In this economics lesson, students will design and advertise shoes to learn product differentiation and advertising in markets.
Key Concepts: Advertising, Market Structures, Monopolistic Competition
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...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Decision Making, Markets and Prices…