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Grades 9-12
The Great Tulip Boom: Economics in World History
Why would people choose to spend a fortune on a single tulip bulb? In this economics lesson, students participate in...
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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…
Grades 3-5
Teach Producers and Consumers using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
This economics and personal finance lesson takes students through the process of producing a good to sell to a fictional...
Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Human Capital using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
In this economics and personal finance lesson, students will examine the human capital of Squirrel, Sloth, and Mr. Peacock and...
Grades 9-12
Thinking in Webs: Hexagon Personal Finance Puzzle
In this personal finance lesson, students will use hexagonal thinking to define and make connections linking personal finance terms and...
Grades 9-12
Personal Finance Looping Cards: Spiraling Reality into the Classroom
Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.
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
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…
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: Incentives
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
Grades 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...
Grades 9-12
What is the Most Ethical Way to Fund Public Schools?
Students analyze documents, create a school-funding graphic organizer, and write an email to their state representative with their plan to...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
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
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
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Continental Drift and Comparative Advantage
Combine your economics and geography lessons in this activity that has students reviewing continental drift and the continents of Laurasia...
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
