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The Unemployment Game
In this economics lesson, students will participate in a labor market to learn about unemployment rate.
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment
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Grades 9-12
Where did All the Money Go? The Great Depression Mystery
In this economics lesson, students will identify conditions in the economy to learn about the Great Depression.
Key Concepts: Financial Markets, Markets and Prices, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades 9-12
AP Microeconomics - When Markets Fail
This lesson supports the Market Failure and the Role of Government section of the Advanced Placement Microeconomics curriculum. Students need...
Key Concepts: Market Structures, Negative Externality, Roles of Government
Grades 9-12
AP Microeconomics - Competition versus Monopsony in Labor Markets
This lesson supports the Factor Markets section of the Advanced Placement Microeconomics curriculum. In this lesson, students are introduced to...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Market Structures
Grades 9-12
AP Microeconomics - Monopoly
This lesson supports the Theory of the Firm section of the Advanced Placement Microeconomics curriculum. Students will learn in this...
Key Concepts: Demand, Market Structures
Grades 9-12
AP Macroeconomics - Net Exports and Capital Flows
This lesson supports the Open Economy: International Trade and Finance section of the Advanced Placement Macroeconomics course. This lesson introduces...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade, Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Economic Institutions…
Grades 9-12
AP Macroeconomics - The Deficit and the Debt
This lesson supports the Inflation, Unemployment, and Stabilization Policies section of the Advanced Placement Macroeconomics course. It introduces government budget...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Budget Surplus…
Grades 9-12
AP Macroeconomics - The Money Market and the Loanable Funds Market
This lesson supports the Financial Sector section of the Advanced Placement Economics course. It introduces students to the money market...
Key Concepts: Credit, Economic Institutions
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...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Credit, Economic Institutions…
Grades 9-12
Economic Indicators for Informed Citizens
Newly updated! This lesson introduces students to three basic economic indicators: real GDP, the inflation rate, and the unemployment rate....
Key Concepts: Consumer Price Index (CPI), Employment and Unemployment, Gross Domestic Product (GDP)…
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: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Scarcity
Grades 9-12
What Do You Get for Your $1,818,600,000,000?
Using MS Excel and data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis web site on federal government spending, students will compare...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Choice, GDP…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
What Do People Want to Wear?
To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites,...
Key Concepts: Demand, Markets and Prices
Grades 6-8, 9-12
One is Silver and the Other's Gold
Students learn about the money supply and that it can affect the value of money. Students investigate this in the...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Fiscal Policy, Markets and Prices…
Grades 3-5
Inventive Incentive
There are many ways in which people are rewarded or penalized for doing, or not doing, their work. These are...
Key Concepts: Choice, Incentive
Grades 9-12
Buying vs. Renting
Have you given any thought to where you will live when you are "on your own" - out in the...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
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...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Distribution of Income
Grades 9-12
The Economics of Professional Sports: Underpaid Millionaires?
Over the last century, professional baseball has grown to become one of the most popular forms of American entertainment. Indeed,...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Division of Labor/Specialization, Markets
Grades 9-12
Save the Moonflowers
Margaret Mee (1909-1988) was a botanical artist who often traveled up the Amazon River alone in search of rare flowers...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Markets
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Bill, Are You Bogus?
In a barter system, people have to trade goods and services for other goods and services. In an economy that...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
