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Grades 9-12

International Trade Creates More and Better Jobs

This lesson explores the relationship between productivity and international trade. Specifically, this lessons shows why there should be fewer trade...
Key Concepts: Specialization, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
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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: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Demand, Investing…
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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
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Grades 6-8, 9-12

To Buy or Not To Buy

While precise numbers are not known, it is believed the number of boycotts has grown markedly in the past fifty...
Key Concepts: Choice, Demand, Economic Systems…
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Grades 9-12

Timing Is Everything

In the first part of the lesson students examine the incentives and opportunity costs of spending and saving in a...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
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Grades 9-12

Trade in Colonial America / NAFTA

Often teachers and students are able to internalize historical and economic concepts through a more recent event that has occurred...
Key Concepts: Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
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Grades 9-12

Developing a Financial Investment Portfolio

Students are given brief descriptions of three individuals. They act as financial advisors and develop a financial investment portfolio for...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments
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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
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Grades 9-12

The Entepreneur in you?

Throughout this lesson students take note of the role of risk and incentives as factors found in all entrepreneurial pursuits....
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs, Incentive, Risk and Return
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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Worker Safety - The Triangle Fire Legacy

In this economics lesson, students study job safety using the Triangle Fire and black lung outbreak.
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Roles of Government
60 mins
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