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Grades 9-12
Stringing Together Supply and Demand: A Tactile Approach to Graphing
In this economics lesson, students use a yarn manipulative activity to accurately illustrate changes in supply and demand curves while...
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Grades 9-12
Risky Spending and Teen Gambling
In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about the risks of sports gambling.
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Personal Finance, Risk Managment/Insurance
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: Budgeting/Money Managment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
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...
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...
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...
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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
Buying on Credit
This personal finance lesson discusses the costs of credit in a manner that helps students calculate those costs and integrate...
Grades 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...
Grades 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...
Grades 9-12
The Great Tulip Boom: Economics in World History
Why would people choose to spend a fortune on a single tulip bulb? In this economics lesson, students participate in...
Grades 9-12
Thinking in Webs: Hexagon Personal Finance Puzzle
In this personal finance lesson, students will use hexagonal thinking to define and make connections linking personal finance terms and...
Grades 9-12
Personal Finance Looping Cards: Spiraling Reality into the Classroom
Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.
Grades 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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
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…
Grades 9-12
Should Private Companies Operate Prisons?
Students analyze and rank the four general goals of corrections to help them determine their personal beliefs about what prisons...
Key Concepts: Incentives
Grades 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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives, Marginal Analysis
Grades 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...
Grades 9-12
What is the Most Ethical Way to Fund Public Schools?
Students analyze documents, create a school-funding graphic organizer, and write an email to their state representative with their plan to...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Continental Drift and Comparative Advantage
Combine your economics and geography lessons in this activity that has students reviewing continental drift and the continents of Laurasia...
