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Grades 6-8

The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?

In this lesson, students investigate the variables that contribute to the cost of gasoline. They learn that while OPEC nations...
Key Concepts: Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization, Goods and Services…
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Education: Weigh Your Options

Getting and keeping a job often requires special education or training. While an employer may provide or pay for some...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Satisfaction Please! (Part 3)

Even the savviest consumer has a problem with a good or service on occasion. It is a consumer’s right to...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Economic Institutions, Public-Choice Analysis…
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Why do we need money? Think about Ebay!

The students investigate money--its purpose and functions. They complete an exercise, using the online acution site Ebay, to learn why...
Key Concepts: Foreign Exchange, Markets, Markets and Prices…
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Was Babe Ruth Under Paid?

This lesson demonstrates a method for teaching students about inflation and the Consumer Price Index, using baseball players' salaries for...
Key Concepts: Inflation, Markets and Prices
Lesson

Grades 6-8

There is Something in the Water

The United States is losing 60,000 acres of wetlands each year. Is this good or bad? Does anyone really want...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goods and Services…
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Why Do Economies Grow? | Lesson Demo

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 3: Why Do Economies Grow? from CEE's Understanding Economics in U.S. History...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments
Video

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Industrial Entrepreneurs or Robber Barons?

This lesson focuses on a group of nineteenth century industrial entrepreneurs described in many history books as Robber Barons. It...
Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Systems…
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Satisfaction Please! (Part 2)

Even the savviest consumer has a problem with a good or service on occasion. It is a consumer’s right to...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Economic Institutions, Incentive…
Lesson

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: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive
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,...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Choice, Demand…
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Agent Pincher: The Case of the UFO

Agent Pincher: The Case of the UFO--Unfamiliar Foreign Objects. That is what currency from another country may look like. Sometimes...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Foreign Exchange, Money…
Lesson

Grades 3-5

You Can BANK on This! (Part 1)

Banking should not be confusing. It should be INTERESTing! Most students in the elementary grades would love to know more...
Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Could You Earn a Million Dollars?

This lesson is designed to acquaint students with the relationship between earnings and education. The data are very clear regarding...
Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Roles of Government
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