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Grades 3-5

What Face do you Use?

The students will recognize that in order to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, most nations create currency for...
Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

This lesson introduces regulation and information as two tools used by government to promote fair competition and complete information in...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Roles of Government
Lesson

Grades 6-8

The Mystery of is it Mine or Ours?

Did you ride to school on a road today? Yesterday did you skate in a public park? Maybe Mom or...
Key Concepts: Economic Systems, Goods and Services, Roles of Government
Lesson

Grades 3-5, 6-8

Taxation without Representation?

This lesson will take students through the series of tax acts that were enacted by the British government and disputed...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Economic Systems…
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Who Is Working?

This lesson teaches students what economists mean when they talk about people who are employed, unemployed, and not in the...
Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Roles of Government
Lesson

Grades 3-5

The Write Stuff

Right now you are probably using a pencil to do your school work. But do you know where the pencil...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Lesson

Grades 3-5

When Gas was a Quarter!

Why do things cost so much more now than they used to? Students will find out about inflation in the...
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Fiscal Policy
Lesson

Grades 3-5

Clean Land - Thanks to US!

In this lesson about the EPA, students will find out that their government pays for goods and services by taxing...
Key Concepts: Market Structures, Roles of Government
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