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Students explore meat consumption statistics, an indicator of a nation's relative prosperity and standard of living. They do a survey...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
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, Entrepreneurs
Grades 6-8
Lewis and Clark barter with the Native Americans
Using the study of the Lewis and Clark expedition students will define the term barter and give examples of bartering.
Key Concepts: Money
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 Trade and Balance of Payments, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Economic Systems…
Grades 6-8
The Mystery of is it Mine or Ours?
Did you ride to school on a road today? Yesterday did you skate in a public park? Maybe Mom or...
Key Concepts: Economic Systems, Goods and Services, Roles of Government
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...
Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Roles of Government
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,...
Key Concepts: Demand, Markets and Prices
Grades 6-8
Bringing the Market to the Farm
Students learn how community supported agriculture (CSAs) is changing the relationship between the farmer and the consumer.
Key Concepts: Choice, Consumers, Goods and Services…
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...
Key Concepts: Choice, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
One is Silver and the Other's Gold
Students learn about the money supply and that it can affect the value of money. Students investigate this in the...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Fiscal Policy, Markets and Prices…
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 Trade and Balance of Payments, Division of Labor/Specialization, Goods and Services
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Marketplace: Let's Go Euro!
With the start of the new year in 2002, the 12 members of the European Union launched a single currency...
Key Concepts: Foreign Exchange, Productivity, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
NearPod Version Available
Grades 6-8
It Pays to Stay in School
In this personal finance lesson, students will analyze and develop stay-in-school incentive programs for a group of students.
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Division of Labor/Specialization, Incentives
Nearpod version available
Grades 6-8
Why Adopt a Highway?
In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about the successful Adopt-a-Highway program.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Market Structures, Roles of Government
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Lemon Squeeze - The Lemonade Stand
Everyone has at one time or another opened a lemonade or Kool-Aid Stand. What a great place to begin an...
Key Concepts: Demand, Markets, Markets and Prices
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Market-Ability
Marketplace, a daily economics news program heard on National Public Radio, featured a story on January 8, 2002, titled "Microsoft...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Markets
Grades 6-8
Capital Chips (Part 3)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades 6-8
The Penny Problem
Students will research the cost of making the penny and the use of the penny. They will come up with...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Money
Grades 6-8
Capital Chips (Part 1)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Credit, Goods and Services…
Grades 6-8
Capital Chips (Part 2)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Goods and Services