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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Division of Labor/Specialization Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concepts of Division of Labor and Specialization. The division of labor refers to the practice that...

Key Concepts: Benefits of Trade, Credit, Demand…

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Trade, Exchange and Interdependence Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: As Humans and Computers Merge ... Immortality?

Paul Solman interviews inventor Ray Kurzweil, who predicts that advancing technology will result in augmented brains, memories recorded on "mind...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Division of Labor/Specialization, Goods and Services…

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Grades 9-12

Invest in Yourself | Lesson Demo

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 2: Invest in Yourself from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Student Loan Debt: To Pay or Not to Pay?

In his second report this week on student lending, economics correspondent Paul Solman examines the challenges that indebted college graduates...

Key Concepts: Borrow, Credit, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Man vs. Machine: Will Human Workers Become Obsolete?

Part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman has been showcasing the future of technology from...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Division of Labor/Specialization, Economic Development…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Downloadable Gun Parts, Personalized Bioterror: the Downside of Innovation

Through innovation and technology, California think tank Singularity University aims to push the frontiers of progress. But what happens when...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Division of Labor/Specialization, Economic Development…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Tech's Next Feats? Maybe On-Demand Kidneys, Robot Sex, Cheap Solar, Lab Meat

Optimists at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University are pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies,...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Division of Labor/Specialization, Economic Development…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: The Unemployment Paradox: Why Job Seekers, Employers Aren't Connecting

The U.S. job market appears to have a paradox: Many job seekers say they're desperate for work while many employers...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Author Charles Murray: Elites Should Teach Working Class How to Live REPORT

The super-educated upper class is out of touch but it could teach lower classes better ways to live, according to...

Key Concepts: Character, Distribution of Income, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: 'Accordion' Families Expand for Boomerang Kids, 'Parasite Singles' to Move Home

In her new book, "The Accordion Family," sociologist Katherine Newman examines why more young adults in the world's wealthiest countries...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Cycles, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

The Columbian Exchange

In this lesson, students learn that the Columbian Exchange resulted in an enormous exchange of goods, resources, and institutions between...

Key Concepts: Economic Development, Goods and Services, Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

LeBron James, The Cavaliers, and Derived Demand

PBS video author Paul Solman reports that LeBron James has added $200 million in value to the city of Cleveland...

Key Concepts: Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: For Undocumented Workers, It's Not-so-Sweet Home Alabama

The controversial Alabama immigration law, know as HB 56, instructs employers to check a worker's immigration status with the government's...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Goods and Services…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Can America's Jobless Fill American Jobs?

With the U.S. unemployment rate stuck around 9 percent, economics correspondent Paul Solman explores whether widespread joblessness is simply the...

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment…

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Grades 9-12

Jokes, Quotations, and Cartoons in Economics

Students will apply their knowledge of economics to the analysis and interpretation of jokes, quotations, and cartoons in economics. Students...

Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Business, Business Cycles…

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