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Grades 9-12
Margin Of Error
The lesson begins with an introduction to the use of polls in political campaigns. The students are introduced to the...
Key Concepts: Choice
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Grades 9-12
Public Choice Economics
Students participate in a series of classroom elections to analyze special-interest effects and see how the costs of voting and...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Public-Choice Analysis
Grades 9-12
Can Election Futures Markets be More Accurate than Polls?
The students examine results from opinion polls conducted near the end of the 2012 presidential campaign. They compare results from...
Key Concepts: Incentive, Markets
Grades 9-12
President Jackson and the Veto of the Second National Bank
ESSENTIAL DILEMMA Could the conflict over the Second National Bank have been resolved in a way that supported the values...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Fraud Risk, Market Structures…
Grades 9-12
The Panic of 1893 and the Election of 1896
ESSENTIAL DILEMMA Were the contradictory responses political leaders had to the panic of 1893 driven more by economic/political self-interest or...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budgeting, Business Cycles…
Grades 9-12
Inflation and Unemployment - Is There a Correlation?
Updated! Perfect for an integrated economics and math or technology lesson. Students use Excel to create scatterplots, regression line equations,...
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Inflation
Grades 9-12
Medicare, Governance, and the National Debt
In this economics lesson, students will learn about how medicare affects the national deficit and debt.
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Budgeting
Grades 9-12
Saving and Budgeting Using the Wheel of Mystfortune
In this math and personal finance lesson, students determine their monthly earned income and estimate how much they could be...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Saving
Grades K-2, 3-5
Specialists Light Up Our Lives!
Peppe and his family moved to America to pursue the American dream. His mother has passed away, his father is...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Specialization, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades 3-5
Opportunity Cost - Playful Economics | Lesson Demo
Using play dough is a fun way to introduce new economic concepts and to keep your students engaged. In this...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
Grades K-2, 3-5
Scarcity - Playful Economics | Lesson and Demo
Shanan Riegle, an award-winning teacher from Yorktown Elementary School in Indiana, demonstrates how to use play dough to teach the...
Key Concepts: Scarcity
Grades 3-5
The Classroom Mini-Economy | Lesson Demo
Shanan Riegle, an award-winning teacher from Yorktown Elementary School in Indiana, shares tips for creating a mini-economy in the elementary...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Institutions, Entrepreneurs…
Grades 9-12
Productivity and Graphing Linear and Quadratic Functions
In this lesson students interpret key features of graphs for both linear and quadratic functions in the context of total...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues
Grades 9-12
The Hidden Costs of College
College costs have escalated over the past two decades, and many students are relying on student loans to cover the...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
Grades 9-12
How Will I Pay for College?
In this lesson, students will learn about current trends in student borrowing and determine a reasonable debt load for hypothetical...
Key Concepts: Borrow, Budgeting, Credit…
Grades 9-12
Powerball Economics | Lesson Demo
Professor Richard MacDonald of St. Cloud University demonstrates a lesson on Powerball Economics at a workshop organized by the Indiana...
Key Concepts: Risk and Return
