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103 of Total Resources

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: Cost and Benefits, Firms and Production, Government Goods and Services…
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 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: Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits, Decision Making…
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 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...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Externalities…
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Deceptive Advertising: Crossing the Line

Businesses use advertising to tell consumers about the goods and services they are selling. Businesses hope that their advertisements will...
Key Concepts: AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts, Externalities…
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Economic Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks

In this economics activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.
Key Concepts: AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts…
10 mins
Activity

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Market Structures Activity

In this economics drag and drop, students will learn about the different types of market structures. 
Key Concepts: AP Microeconomics, Economic Systems, Firms and Production…
10 mins
Activity

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Should We Allow a Market for Transplant Organs?

Should you be able to sell your kidney? Students explore the ethics and economics of organ donation while learning about...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Barriers to Trade, Basic Economic Concepts…
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Can You Allocate Ethically?

In Lesson #4 from the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students work in groups to analyze allocation methods, apply...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Allocation, Allocation…
45 mins
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Do Businesses Have Social Responsibility?

In Lesson #6 of the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students will participate in a simulation and discussion to...
Key Concepts: Business Organization, Externalities, Firms and Production…
45 min
Lesson

SIFMA Foundation

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

Stock Prices and the 2026 Super Bowl

*Updated for 2026* Harness the excitement of the Super Bowl with this lesson from the SIFMA Foundation for Investor Education....
Key Concepts: AP Microeconomics, Cost and Benefits, Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Lesson

Grades 3-5, 6-8

Did You Get the Message?

Updated! In this economic lesson, students will view TV ads to learn advertising incentives and strategies.
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Firms and Production, Incentives…
45 mins
Lesson

Grades K-2, 3-5

No Extra Room on the Mayflower

The students will explore the ideas of scarcity and choices by exploring a virtual model of the Mayflower. They will...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making…
Lesson

Grades 3-5, 6-8

Opening a Restaurant

In this economics activity, students use scarce resources to plan the opening of a restaurant.
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Factors of Production, Marginal Analysis…
20 mins
Activity