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Grades 9-12
CPI- The Crystal Ball
Governments and other financial organizations are constantly measuring trends in the economy to try to predict what will happen next....
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Grades 6-8
It Pays to Stay in School
In this personal finance lesson, students will analyze and develop stay-in-school incentive programs for a group of students.
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Incentives, Specialization…
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Lemon Squeeze - The Lemonade Stand
Everyone has at one time or another opened a lemonade or Kool-Aid Stand. What a great place to begin an...
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Grades 6-8
Why Adopt a Highway?
In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about the successful Adopt-a-Highway program.
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Institutions, Game Theory…
Grades 9-12
Multipliers and the Mystery of the Magic Money
Students learn about the purpose of the reserve requirement, how money is "created" in the economy through fractional reserves, and...
Key Concepts: Financial Institutions
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Market-Ability
Marketplace, a daily economics news program heard on National Public Radio, featured a story on January 8, 2002, titled "Microsoft...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments
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...
Grades 6-8
The Penny Problem
Students will research the cost of making the penny and the use of the penny. They will come up with...
Grades 3-5
Music, Maestro, Please: Show Business and the Factors of Production
The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recently opened a $300 million dollar center for the performing arts, the Kimmel Center. This...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades 6-8
Capital Chips (Part 3)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades 6-8
Capital Chips (Part 2)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Goods and Services
Grades 6-8
Capital Chips (Part 1)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Goods and Services
Grades 9-12
Unemployment in My Hometown
Students use the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to track unemployment rates for their community, and after researching information about...
Grades 9-12
It's a Matter of Power
Students examine tradeoffs and profit- maximization decisions in the case study of Kaiser Aluminum, which decided to shut down aluminum...
Grades 9-12
What Does A Dollar Really Buy?
Students will describe the purpose of a price index, and how it is calculated. Then students will describe the weaknesses...
Grades 6-8
The Need for Money that Everybody can Use
The U.S. Currency currently has two faces. The old bills are being replaced with new designs. The study of the...
