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Grades K-2, 3-5
Valentine's Day Capital Resources Activity
Use an arts and crafts activity, like making Valentine's Day hearts, to teach students about human and capital resources.
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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 K-2, 3-5
Decision Making with "Sam and the Lucky Money"
Using the children's book, "Sam and the Lucky Money", students learn about Chinese New Year and practice decision-making skills using...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Buying Goods and Services, Decision Making…
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...
Key Concepts: AP Microeconomics, Externalities, Externalities…
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: AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts, Externalities…
Content Partner
Grades 3-5
Shark Scam: Money Tales
Students read about two scheming sharks and decide were to invest their money.
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Goods and Services…
Grades 9-12
Budget Odyssey - Classifying Income, Fixed Expense, and Variable Expense
In this game, students can race with each other by classifying income, fixed expense, and variable expense.
Key Concepts: AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits…
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 6-8, 9-12
Simple Interest Calculator
This Simple Interest Calculator helps you calculate the interest earned on your investment over a set period of time.
Content Partner
Grades 3-5, 6-8
PBS-NOVA Financial Lab
Managing money is hard! Even when you know what you should do, it can be hard to actually do it....
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Decision Making…
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: Allocation, AP Macroeconomics, Crowding Out…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Economic Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks
In this economics activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.
Key Concepts: AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts…
Grades 9-12
Supply and Demand - Game
In this economics game, students will play through a board game learning about supply and demand.
Key Concepts: Aggregate Supply and Demand, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics…
