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446 of Total Resources

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…

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

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…

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

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: Economic Institutions, Financial Institutions, Production Function

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Shark Scam: Money Tales

Students read about two scheming sharks and decide were to invest their money.
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Money, Money

Federal Budget: The Fiscal Ship Game

In this lesson, updated with 2023 statistics, students learn about the challenges of the federal debt and play the Fiscal...
Key Concepts: Crowding Out, Debt, Economic Institutions