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Grades 9-12

Could Brooklyn hipsters help save the middle class?

Frozen ginger slushies, tea-based pro-biotic drinks, a bed bug-killing steam machine -- these are just a few of the locally-grown...

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Budding recreational pot industry sparks innovation and investment

Recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado and Washington state, and though it's still illegal under federal law, more states are...

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: In 'second machine age' of robots, it's time for humans to get creative

Robotic technology is increasingly infiltrating our everyday world, and as robots become more capable of human labor, people will likely...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Economic Development, Entrepreneurs…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Tricking the brain with transformative virtual reality

Want to have a just-like-real-life fantasy experience without leaving your living room? Virtual reality technology is already employed by certain...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Entrepreneurs

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Artists Learn Art of Business to Brave Tough Economic Times

In the classical performing arts, more and more artists -- ever more highly skilled -- compete for fewer and fewer...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: A Boom in Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment Among Late Bloomers

Are mature entrepreneurs on the rise? Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to older workers who decided to pursue their own...

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Grades 3-5

Spotlighting Entrepreneurs: A Technology "iCon"

What better way to address Common Core standards in Reading Informational Text than by meeting a gentleman that changed the...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Business, Credit…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Profit Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Profit. Profit is income received for entrepreneurial skills or risk taking and is calculated...

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Entrepreneurs, Market Structure…

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Productive Resources Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Productive Resources. Productive resources are used to produce goods and services and are classified...

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Entrepreneurs Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are willing to risk their own resources in order to sell them...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Entrepreneurs, Producers…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Downloadable Gun Parts, Personalized Bioterror: the Downside of Innovation

Through innovation and technology, California think tank Singularity University aims to push the frontiers of progress. But what happens when...

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Tech's Next Feats? Maybe On-Demand Kidneys, Robot Sex, Cheap Solar, Lab Meat

Optimists at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University are pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies,...

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: For Automakers, Better Batteries Crucial to Success of New Electric Cars

Paul Solman looks at efforts to make electric cars more viable by building better batteries and making them more aerodynamic.

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Demand, Entrepreneurs…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: GM, Detroit Pinning Hopes for Future on Chevy Volt

Paul Solman travels to Detroit for an update car and examines how GM and the city are hoping for a...

Key Concepts: Complementary Goods and Services, Demand, Entrepreneurs

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Grades 3-5

One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place...

Key Concepts: Borrow, Budgeting, Entrepreneurs…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: How Handel Orchestrated a Financial Comeback

Paul Solman looks at how 18th century composer George Frideric Handel established a foundation for a new business approach to...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Entrepreneurs, Investing…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 3)

Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Business Costs and Revenues, Economic Systems…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 1)

Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Business Costs and Revenues…

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Grades 9-12

U.S. Constitution: Rules of the Game | Lesson Demo

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 9: The U.S. Constitution: Rules of the Game from CEE's Understanding Economics...

Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Economic Systems, Entrepreneurs…

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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…

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