Resources (by date) 103 of Total Resources
Resources (by date) 103 of Total Resources

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103 of Total Resources

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Economic Systems Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Economic Systems. Economic systems can be categorized according to who makes most of the...
Key Concepts: AP Macroeconomics, Economic Institutions, Economic Systems…
Video

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: Allocation, Firms and Production, Global Economy & Globalization…
Video

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

Entrepreneurs Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are willing to risk their own resources in order to sell them...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs…
Video

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Market Failures Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Market Failures. There are certain well-recognized conditions under which market failure occurs; this means...
Key Concepts: AP Microeconomics, Externalities, Firms and Production…
Video

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Competition and Market Structure Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Competition and Market Structures. In the context of markets, competition refers to the situation...
Key Concepts: AP Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits…
Video

Grades 9-12

Traditional Economies and the Inuit

The Inuit people of northern Canada provide an example of a traditional economy. For thousands of years, Inuit parents have...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Allocation, Allocation…
Lesson

Grades K-2

Teach About Scarcity with "The Mitten"

This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Allocation, Basic Economic Concepts…
30 mins
Lesson

Grades 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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Entrepreneurs, Firms and Production…
Lesson

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 Organization, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs…
Lesson

Grades K-2, 3-5

What is Competition?

Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, and that...
Key Concepts: Marginal Analysis
Lesson

Grades 6-8

Hey, Get a Job!

The second of a two-part unit on income-earning endeavors, this lesson has students choose a job or business to engage...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Entrepreneurs
Lesson

Grades 3-5

Peanuts, Pecans, and Peas, Please

Updated! George Washington Carver, a great scientist, changed the economy of the South with his agricultural knowledge. This lesson will...
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs
Lesson