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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Teaching Cost-Benefit Decision Making in Grades 6 -12

This video walks teachers through an example of how to introduce a Cost/Benefit decision grid to their students.

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Teaching PACED Decision Making in Grades 6-12

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making

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Grades 6-8

Mario's Choice - Decision Making and Opportunity Cost

In this middle school lesson, students use decision-making skills to solve a scarcity problem and then write their own stories...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Buying Goods and Services, Decision Making…

45 mins

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Grades 6-8

Connect the Dots: Calculate Saving and Spending

In this cross-curricular math and personal finance lesson, students solve word problems and then use those solutions to solve a...

Key Concepts: Buying Goods and Services

45 mins

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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 quotes by famous women to inspire discussions...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Employment…

5 mins

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Buying Electric Appliances - Watt You Need to Know

In this lesson, students learn about the importance of energy costs when considering household budgeting decisions. They also consider the...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Buying Goods and Services…

60 mins

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

So, You Want to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?

In this economics lesson, students take on the role of budget manager for a power company interested in building a...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits, Decision Making…

60 mins

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

The Future of Batteries

In this high school economics lesson, students take part in an interactive simulation that demonstrates how batteries operate, participate in...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Firms and Production, Incentives…

50 mins

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

The Costs and Benefits of Hosting the Olympics

In this economics lesson, students will determine the costs and benefits of hosting the Olympic games and create a poster...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits, Decision Making…

45 mins

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Grades 3-5, 6-8

Willy Wonka’s Whimsical Entrepreneurship

In this lesson, students discuss the characteristics of an entrepreneur and how those characteristics apply to Willy Wonka. In groups,...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs…

45 mins

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Grades 3-5, 6-8

Willy Wonka Allocates Golden Tickets

In this lesson, students review scarcity and ways to allocate scarce resources (like golden tickets), taking the perspective of the...

Key Concepts: Allocation, Allocation, Allocation…

45 mins

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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: Barriers to Trade, Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making…

90 mins

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Grades 6-8, 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: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Economic Growth…

60 mins

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Grades 6-8, 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: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Income…

60 mins

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Personal Finance Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks

In this personal finance activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Personal Finance

5 mins

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

March Madness Brackets!

Use the excitement surrounding March Madness to review economic and personal finance topics!

Key Concepts: AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts…

15 mins

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