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449 of Total Resources

Grades 9-12

Fewer Watts and Fatter Wallets

Students learn about incentives for alternative energy programs and the role played by non-price determinants in energy choices.
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Fad or Fortune

This lesson focuses on collectibles and how they retain, lose, or gain value. In each round of a trading simulation,...
Lesson

Grades 3-5

The Grasshopper and the Ant

Understanding the concept of opportunity cost is critical for good decision making. The ability to identify the opportunity cost—the highest...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goods and Services…
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Sand Art Brownies

In this lesson, you will learn about substitute goods. You will have choices to make in your role as a...
Key Concepts: Scarcity
Lesson

Grades 3-5

What Face do you Use?

The students will recognize that in order to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, most nations create currency for...
Lesson

Grades 3-5

To Be or Not To Be?

This lesson guides students through web sites that examine careers that are typically of interest to 3rd- through 5th-grade students....
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Collecting for Fun . . . and Profit?

Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people...
Key Concepts: Risk Managment/Insurance
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