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Grades 6-8, 9-12
Compound Interest Calculator
This calculator demonstrates how compounding can affect your savings.
Key Concepts: Interest, Investing, Savers
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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
Grades 9-12
How Much Does it Cost Now?
Students will use the FRED database to download the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and calculate the equivalent price of a...
Key Concepts: Fiscal Policy
Grades 9-12
Economic Indicators for Informed Citizens
Newly updated! This lesson introduces students to three basic economic indicators: real GDP, the inflation rate, and the unemployment rate....
Key Concepts: Consumer Price Index (CPI), Employment and Unemployment, Gross Domestic Product (GDP)…
Grades 9-12
Traditional Economies and the Inuit
The Inuit people of northern Canada provide an example of a traditional economy. For thousands of years, Inuit parents have...
Key Concepts: Demand, Economic Systems, Goods and Services…
Grades 9-12
Okun's Law
The students sharpen their graphing skills by interpreting the relationship between changes in the unemployment rate (%) and real GDP....
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment
Grades 6-8, 9-12
The Family Vacation
Students will take a surprise trip around the world. As they travel, they will use clues to discover where they...
Key Concepts: Foreign Exchange, Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades 9-12
You're Going to College
In this personal finance lesson, students will explore the cost of a college education to make more informed choices.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
Grades 9-12
Exploring Taxes
In this personal finance lesson, students will explore websites to learn about income taxes.
Key Concepts: Income, Taxes
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 3)
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Business Costs and Revenues, Economic Systems…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 1)
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Business Costs and Revenues…
Grades 9-12
What Happened to Railroads?
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades 9-12
It's a Not So Wonderful Life
In this lesson students learn about banks and banking. The study the fractional reserve system, and the role the Fed...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Markets and Prices, Money…
Grades 9-12
Banks & Credit Unions (Part I)
Students learn about banks and credit unions, identifying similarities and differences between the two types of financial institution. They also...
Key Concepts: Banking, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Institutions…
Grades 9-12
Rising Living Standards In The New Nation | Lesson Demo
This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 10: Rising Living Standards in the New Nation from CEE's Understanding Economics...
Key Concepts: Demand, Economic Development, Goods and Services…
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Grades 6-8, 9-12
Looping Around the World: A Game of International Trade
In this economics lesson, students will use looping cards to define and provide examples of the terms associated with international...
Key Concepts: Benefits of Trade, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
