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Grades 6-8
The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?
In this lesson, students investigate the variables that contribute to the cost of gasoline. They learn that while OPEC nations...
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Grades 9-12
Education: Weigh Your Options
Getting and keeping a job often requires special education or training. While an employer may provide or pay for some...
Grades 9-12
Satisfaction Please! (Part 3)
Even the savviest consumer has a problem with a good or service on occasion. It is a consumer’s right to...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Financial Institutions
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Why do we need money? Think about Ebay!
The students investigate money--its purpose and functions. They complete an exercise, using the online acution site Ebay, to learn why...
Key Concepts: Exchange Rates
Grades 6-8
There is Something in the Water
The United States is losing 60,000 acres of wetlands each year. Is this good or bad? Does anyone really want...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Scarcity
Grades 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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Entrepreneurs, Firms and Production…
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...
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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 6-8
Fad or Fortune
This lesson focuses on collectibles and how they retain, lose, or gain value. In each round of a trading simulation,...
Grades 6-8
Agent Pincher: The Case of the UFO
Agent Pincher: The Case of the UFO--Unfamiliar Foreign Objects. That is what currency from another country may look like. Sometimes...
Grades 3-5
You Can BANK on This! (Part 1)
Banking should not be confusing. It should be INTERESTing! Most students in the elementary grades would love to know more...
Grades 9-12
New Sense, Inc. vs. Fish 'Till U Drop or Coase Vs. Pigou
Hot debate and arguments galore whirl around this question: "Which economic approach is the most efficient and fair to resolve...
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...
Grades 3-5
You Can BANK on This! (Part 4)
This lesson deals with credit and wraps up this unit on finance.
Grades 3-5
The Grasshopper and the Ant
Understanding the concept of opportunity cost is critical for good decision making. The ability to identify the opportunity cost—the highest...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Goods and Services…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Sand Art Brownies - Decision-Making and Substitutes
In this lesson, students learn about substitute goods and decision-making in their role as a shopper. Are students willing to...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Buying Goods and Services, Decision Making…
