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446 of Total Resources

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…
30 mins
Lesson

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
90 mins
Lesson

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…
60 min
Lesson

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
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: Economic Institutions, Financial Institutions, Production Function
Lesson

Content Partner

Grades 3-5

Shark Scam: Money Tales

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

Grades 9-12

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
120 mins
Lesson