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Grades 9-12
The Great Tulip Boom: Economics in World History
Why would people choose to spend a fortune on a single tulip bulb? In this economics lesson, students participate in...
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Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Specialization using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
In this economics lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that reinforces the concepts of specialists/entrepreneurs, workers, capital resources, and products.
Key Concepts: Factors of Production, Productive Resources, Productive Resources…
Grades 3-5
Teach Producers and Consumers using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
This economics and personal finance lesson takes students through the process of producing a good to sell to a fictional...
Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Human Capital using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
In this economics and personal finance lesson, students will examine the human capital of Squirrel, Sloth, and Mr. Peacock and...
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Personal Finance Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks
In this personal finance activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.
Grades 6-8, 9-12
March Madness Terms
Grades 9-12
Thinking in Webs: Hexagon Personal Finance Puzzle
In this personal finance lesson, students will use hexagonal thinking to define and make connections linking personal finance terms and...
Grades 9-12
Personal Finance Looping Cards: Spiraling Reality into the Classroom
Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.
Grades 9-12
Can We End Housing Insecurity?
Students compare the economic costs and benefits of helping people who are experiencing housing insecurity and consider the ethical implications.
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Marginal Revolution University
Grades 9-12
Valentine's Day Demand Interactive
Grades K-2, 3-5
Valentine's Day Capital Resources Activity
Use an arts and crafts activity, like making Valentine's Day hearts, to teach students about human and capital resources.
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Valentine's Day Greeting Card Production
Working in small groups, students participate in a production simulation (making Valentine's Day greeting cards) to determine the effects of...
Key Concepts: Factors of Production, Productive Resources, Productive Resources…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Decision Making with "Sam and the Lucky Money"
Using the children's book, "Sam and the Lucky Money", students learn about Chinese New Year and practice decision-making skills using...
Grades 9-12
Should Private Companies Operate Prisons?
Students analyze and rank the four general goals of corrections to help them determine their personal beliefs about what prisons...
Key Concepts: Incentives
Grades 9-12
Can You Be Fashionable and Ethical?
Students “produce” blue jeans and make business choices about production to simulate the decision of changing from more expensive, but...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
What Can We Do About Pollution?
Students play charades to mimic noise pollution and consider the question "what can be done if someone's choices are putting...
