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215 of Total Resources

Grades 6-8, 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: Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits, Decision Making…
90 mins
Lesson

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: Factors of Production, Productive Resources, Productive Resources…
60 min
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 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: Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits, Decision Making…
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

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: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Externalities…
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Simple Interest Calculator

This Simple Interest Calculator helps you calculate the interest earned on your investment over a set period of time.
Key Concepts: Interest Rates, Personal Finance, Saving
15 mins
Calculator

Content Partner

Grades 6-8

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: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Decision Making…
45 min
Activity

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…
10 mins
Activity

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: AP Microeconomics, Economic Systems, Firms and Production…
10 mins
Activity

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...
15 mins
Activity

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: AP Microeconomics, Comparative Advantage, Comparative Advantage…
15 mins
Activity

Grades 6-8, 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, Barriers to Trade, Basic Economic Concepts…
60 mins
Lesson

Content Partner

Grades 6-8

Dinner Discussions at Maggie Walker's House

Students study historic objects, photographs and documents, research influential members of the African American community and role-play a dinner party...
Key Concepts: Incentives
3 class periods
Lesson