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105 of Total Resources

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...
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: Entrepreneurs
45 mins
Lesson

Grades 3-5, 6-8

Taxation without Representation?

This lesson will take students through the series of tax acts that were enacted by the British government and disputed...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Crowding Out, Debt…
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Who Is Working?

This lesson teaches students what economists mean when they talk about people who are employed, unemployed, and not in the...
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

What Do People Want to Wear?

To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites,...
Lesson

Grades 3-5, 6-8

What's My Interest?

Students explore the concept of interest by means of two activities. The first, a simple activity with jellybeans, introduces the...
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Fill 'er up, Please

Americans drive more than 2.6 trillion miles per year, that's 14,000 round trips to the sun! And for the most...
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Grades 3-5, 6-8

Why Work Now?

Why do people work so hard? Why aren't you just assigned a job that you are interested in and get...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Goods and Services, Specialization…
Lesson