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Game-Based Learning in Economics

When games are connected to learning outcomes, they can motivate students to engage in and achieve learning. In each of these lessons, games play an integral part in the learning process. Students build in Minecraft. They balance the budget in the Fiscal Ship, and they learn about trading, behavioral economics, and opportunity cost in non-digital games.

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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
120 mins
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