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Grades 9-12

New Sense, Inc. vs. Fish 'Till U Drop or Coase Vs. Pigou

Hot debate and arguments galore whirl around this question: "Which economic approach is the most efficient and fair to resolve...

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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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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Grades 3-5

You Can BANK on This! (Part 4)

This lesson deals with credit and wraps up this unit on finance.

Key Concepts: Credit, Interest, Profit

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Grades 3-5

The Grasshopper and the Ant

Understanding the concept of opportunity cost is critical for good decision making. The ability to identify the opportunity cost—the highest...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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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

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Grades 3-5

What Face do you Use?

The students will recognize that in order to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, most nations create currency for...

Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

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Grades 3-5

To Be or Not To Be?

This lesson guides students through web sites that examine careers that are typically of interest to 3rd- through 5th-grade students....

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

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Grades 6-8

Agent Pincher: The Case of the missing Susan B. Anthony Dollar

Agent Penn E. Pincher is again called out on a case. It seems that in 1979 the U.S. Bureau of...

Key Concepts: Money

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Grades 6-8

Agent Pincher: P is for Penny or Where did money come from?

Over time everyone has had a pocketful of pennies, it’s not something we think about very much. But what if...

Key Concepts: Money

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Collecting for Fun . . . and Profit?

Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people...

Key Concepts: Demand, Investing, Markets and Prices…

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Grades 9-12

The Economics of Voting: What Do You Mean My Vote Doesn't Count?

This lesson explores the costs and benefits associated with voting in national elections. Specifically, the concepts of rational apathy, rational...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive

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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…

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Grades 9-12

Economic Sectors and International Development

Using poverty rate as a measure of development, students select countries five at a time to compare how resources are...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Economic Systems

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Grades 3-5, 6-8

How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice

In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a...

Key Concepts: Choice, Markets and Prices

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Grades 9-12

Business Ownership: The Franchise Option

Students explore an alternative to starting a business from scratch – investing in a franchise. They begin by considering the...

Key Concepts: Business, Choice, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

Government Spending: Why Do We Spend the Way We Do?

Students look at definitions for the three categories of federal spending and using the internet locate examples of each. They...

Key Concepts: Interest

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