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Grades K-2
Tricks for Treats
Students will recognize that people (and animals) will work for incentives.
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Grades 3-5, 6-8
The Mystery of the Amazing Farmers
In this lesson you will be taking on the role of an an investigative reporter to solve the Amazing Farmer...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Goods and Services, Specialization…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
A Fair Wage
Income for most people is determined by the market value of the productive resources they sell. What workers earn depends,...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Buying Goods and Services, Production Function…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
What Do You Want To Be?
In this lesson, students have the opportunity to explore various jobs and decide what they might want to be when...
Key Concepts: GDP
Grades 9-12
The Role of Government: The Federal Government and Fiscal Policy
How does the Federal Government spend the trillions of dollars it raises from taxes? Students will read excerpts from “A...
Key Concepts: Crowding Out, Debt
Grades K-2
Increasing Productivity
This lesson stimulates students' thinking with stories about rigorous athlete training illustrating the importance of training and practice. After students...
Grades K-2
Eureka!
Take a look at how inventions, such as plastic, have changed our lives and how they are changing the future...
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs
Grades 9-12
The Economics of Homebuying
In this personal finance lesson, students interpret charts and graphs to analyze home buying trends, and then use a mortgage...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
Should I Be a Professional Basketball Player?
The purpose of this lesson is to help you explore the relationship between education and income. Income is earned from...
Key Concepts: Buying Goods and Services, Entrepreneurs
Grades 9-12
Income: It Ain't Where You Start, It's What You Got, and Where You End
This year's federal elections will involve electing a president, all members of the House of Representatives, and one third of...
Grades 9-12
'Be All You Can Be'...For Minimum Wage?
Perhaps you have seen the catchy TV ads for the various branches of the United States military. You know, the...
Key Concepts: Buying Goods and Services, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis…
Grades 9-12
Do You Have a Yen to Go to College?
Carlos is a senior at local high school. When he graduates, he plans to study computer animation. He has applied...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Exchange Rates, Marginal Analysis
Grades 9-12
Underpaid Millionaires? The Economics of Major League Baseball
Use the hook of professional sports to introduce the concepts of competitive markets, specialization, and monopolies as they relate to...
Key Concepts: Production Function, Specialization, Specialization
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Save the Moonflowers
This economics and science lesson outlines the concepts of markets and natural resources while discussing the experiences of Margaret Mee....
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades 6-8
Where Does the Money Come From?
With very few exceptions, the U.S. federal government does not have an "income" to spend providing goods and services. The...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions
Grades 9-12
How Long Is Your Life?
High school students have rarely been asked to look at their future beyond where they will be going to college...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment
