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Grades 9-12
Focus on Economic Data: The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy, March 20, 2015
This lesson utilizes the March 18, 2015, statement of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to explore the...
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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 Payments, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Entrepreneurs…
Grades 9-12
Understanding a Balance Sheet
A balance sheet shows the assets, liabilities, and net worth for a business on a given day. This business document...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
Balance of Payments (BOP)
International trade allows countries to buy and sell both domestic and foreign goods, as well as services and financial assets....
Grades K-2
Human Resources and Capital Resources: It's A Match!
Students will define and identify human resources and capital resources workers use in their jobs.
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades 9-12
How Much Does it Cost Now?
Students will use the FRED database to download the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and calculate the equivalent price of a...
Grades 3-5
Cowboy Bob Builds a Community
A cowboy rides into a ghost town and decides that it needs to be rebuilt. Students will select the necessary...
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 3)
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Economic Institutions, Entrepreneurs…
Grades 9-12
What Happened to Railroads?
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral...
Grades 9-12
China - Where will they fit in the world economy?
With its, emerging middle class, its new markets, and a new emphasis on increasing its technology base, where is China...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades 9-12
Satisfaction Please! (Part 3)
Even the savviest consumer has a problem with a good or service on occasion. It is a consumer’s right to...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Financial Institutions
Grades 3-5
You Can BANK on This! (Part 4)
This lesson deals with credit and wraps up this unit on finance.
Grades 6-8
Agent Pincher: P is for Penny or Where did money come from?
Over time everyone has had a pocketful of pennies, it’s not something we think about very much. But what if...
Grades 3-5, 6-8
How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice
In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a...
Grades 9-12
Business Ownership: The Franchise Option
Students explore an alternative to starting a business from scratch – investing in a franchise. They begin by considering the...
Key Concepts: Business Organization, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs…
Grades K-2, 3-5
What is Competition?
Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, and that...
Key Concepts: Marginal Analysis
