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Grades 6-8

There is Something in the Water

The United States is losing 60,000 acres of wetlands each year. Is this good or bad? Does anyone really want...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Scarcity
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Fad or Fortune

This lesson focuses on collectibles and how they retain, lose, or gain value. In each round of a trading simulation,...
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Collecting for Fun . . . and Profit?

Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people...
Key Concepts: Risk Managment/Insurance
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Worker Safety - The Triangle Fire Legacy

In this economics lesson, students study job safety using the Triangle Fire and black lung outbreak.
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Employment/Unemployment, Phillips Curve…
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Be an Energy Saver

This lesson focuses on the scarce and nonrenewable nature of fossil fuels in order to stimulate student thinking about energy...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Institutions, Marginal Analysis
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

This lesson introduces regulation and information as two tools used by government to promote fair competition and complete information in...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Buying Goods and Services, Economic Institutions…
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Where's the Beef?

Students explore meat consumption statistics, an indicator of a nation's relative prosperity and standard of living. They do a survey...
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Hey, Get a Job!

The second of a two-part unit on income-earning endeavors, this lesson has students choose a job or business to engage...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Entrepreneurs
Lesson

Grades 3-5, 6-8

I Can Be an Entrepreneur

In this personal finance lesson, students explore entrepreneurship by earning money and advertising their business. Learners are given advice on...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits, Entrepreneurs…
45 mins
Lesson