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Grades 9-12

The Entrepreneur and the Supply Chain: Lesson and Video

Teach your students about supply chains. In this video a young woman starts her own business bedazzling cell phone cases...

Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs, Goods and Services

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Grades 9-12

Debt and Equity Financing Video

Teach your students about debt and equity financing. In this video a small business owner wants to expand her business,...

Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Entrepreneurs…

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Grades 9-12

Credit Score Video

Teach your students about credit scores. In this video a young man wants to get a loan to make surround...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Credit, Entrepreneurs

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Grades 9-12

Business Plan Video

Teach your students about developing a business plan. In this video a young man uses a business plan to determine...

Key Concepts: Business, Entrepreneurs

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: The new sharing economy can enrich micro-entrepreneurs but at what cost?

The growing American "share economy" makes use of people's preexisting and underutilized assets and time. Hospitality website Airbnb helps turn...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Costs and Revenues, Consumers…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Top-down or middle-out? Debating the key to economic growth

What's the best engine to drive the economy? More money for the rich, or better wages for the working class?...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Distribution of Income, Entrepreneurs…

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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...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Division of Labor/Specialization, Entrepreneurs…

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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...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Entrepreneurs, Financial Investments…

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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...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Entrepreneurs, Financial Investments…

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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 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...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Division of Labor/Specialization, Entrepreneurs…

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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 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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