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Grades 9-12
Would You Demand It?
In this economics lesson, students will compare demand and quantity demanded to learn about consumer behavior.
Key Concepts: Demand
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Grades 9-12
Mobile Phones Matter
In this personal finance lesson, students will research mobile apps for financial decision making.
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
Grades 9-12
Pop Goes the Housing Bubble
In this lesson, students will learn about a speculative bubble within the context of the U.S. real estate market.
Key Concepts: Asset, Borrow, Credit…
Grades 9-12
The 411 on College Education
One of the most important financial decisions people make is whether to go to college. The price tag of a...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Division of Labor/Specialization, Market Structures
Grades 9-12
What is a Stock?
The students work in small groups that represent households. Each household answers questions about stocks and stock markets. For each...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Financial Markets, Investing
Grades 9-12
Invest in Yourself
To explore the concept that people invest in themselves through education, the students work in two groups and participate in...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Human Capital, Income
Grades 9-12
Understanding the Debt Ceiling Debate and the Budget Control Act of 2011
This lesson provides an introduction and an overview of the Budget Control Act of 2011. Students will be given information...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, GDP…
Grades 9-12
Understanding a Balance Sheet
A balance sheet shows the assets, liabilities, and net worth for a business on a given day. This business document...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Insurance
Grades 9-12
The Economics of Pro Sports: Why are the Cowboys and Yankees so Valuable?
This lesson investigates the value of sports franchises in the various professional sports leagues. Students will investigate the revenues and...
Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive…
Grades 9-12
A Penny Saved
In this economics lesson, students will read and discuss the comic book, “A Penny Saved".
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Credit, Economic Institutions…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
The Columbian Exchange
In this lesson, students learn that the Columbian Exchange resulted in an enormous exchange of goods, resources, and institutions between...
Key Concepts: Economic Development, Goods and Services, Specialization…
Grades 9-12
Opportunity Cost
In this personal finance lesson, students will identify the opportunity cost of a spending decision.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost
Grades 9-12
You've Won The Lottery! Now What?
Friday the 13th was your lucky day. You won the lottery! The lottery officials have given you a choice. You...
Key Concepts: Credit
Grades 9-12
Learning About Mortgages - Loan Amortization
How to amortize a loan using an Excel spreadsheet.
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Credit, Financial Planning…
Grades 9-12
Avatar, King of the Box Office?
On January 26, 2010, the film Avatar officially topped Titanic as the top-grossing film of all-time at the box office....
Key Concepts: Fiscal Policy, Real vs. Nominal
Grades 9-12
LeBron James, The Cavaliers, and Derived Demand
PBS video author Paul Solman reports that LeBron James has added $200 million in value to the city of Cleveland...
Key Concepts: Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Calculating Simple Interest
In this personal finance lesson, students will use I=P(r)(t) to calculate simple interest on a loan.
Key Concepts: Credit, Interest
Grades 9-12
Jokes, Quotations, and Cartoons in Economics
Students will apply their knowledge of economics to the analysis and interpretation of jokes, quotations, and cartoons in economics. Students...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Business, Business Cycles…
Grades 9-12
Balance of Payments (BOP)
International trade allows countries to buy and sell both domestic and foreign goods, as well as services and financial assets....
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments
Grades 9-12
Utility
Can happiness be measured? Students will learn how utility relates to economic decision making and the law of diminishing marginal...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Demand, Wants
