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Grades 9-12

Was Babe Ruth Under Paid?

This lesson demonstrates a method for teaching students about inflation and the Consumer Price Index, using baseball players' salaries for...
Key Concepts: Inflation, Markets and Prices
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Industrial Entrepreneurs or Robber Barons?

This lesson focuses on a group of nineteenth century industrial entrepreneurs described in many history books as Robber Barons. It...
Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Systems…
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Why Do Economies Grow? | Lesson Demo

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 3: Why Do Economies Grow? from CEE's Understanding Economics in U.S. History...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments
Video

Grades 9-12

Satisfaction Please! (Part 2)

Even the savviest consumer has a problem with a good or service on occasion. It is a consumer’s right to...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Economic Institutions, Incentive…
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Fewer Watts and Fatter Wallets

Students learn about incentives for alternative energy programs and the role played by non-price determinants in energy choices.
Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Closing the Gap

In this economics lesson, students will identify factors affecting GDP in different countries.
Key Concepts: Economic Growth, GDP, Inflation
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Could You Earn a Million Dollars?

This lesson is designed to acquaint students with the relationship between earnings and education. The data are very clear regarding...
Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Roles of Government
Lesson

Grades 9-12

The Benefits of Investing Early

In this personal finance lesson, students will compare the impact of time on long-term investments.
Key Concepts: Financial Investments, Risk and Return
45 mins
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Unemployment and the New Deal

In this economics lesson, students examine the impact of the New Deal on unemployment.
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Roles of Government
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Sand Art Brownies

In this lesson, you will learn about substitute goods. You will have choices to make in your role as a...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Scarcity
Lesson

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: Demand, Investing, Markets and Prices…
Lesson

Grades 9-12

College: Where am I going to go?

In this economics lesson, students will use economic reasoning to choose post-secondary options.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 9-12

U.S. farmers and the Cuban embargo

In this economics lesson, students examine trade barriers using the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba.
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Barriers to Trade, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
60 mins
Lesson