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Grades 9-12
What Happened to Railroads?
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral...
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Grades 6-8
The Higher you Climb, The More You Pay
Students will take a "Virtual Tour" of the Eiffel Tower in Paris France and locate the price of a bottle...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Foreign Exchange, Marginal Analysis
Grades 3-5
The Color of Resources
This lesson will demonstrate the making of Crayola products to introduce natural, capital, and human resources as well as touching...
Grades 9-12
China - Where will they fit in the world economy?
With its, emerging middle class, its new markets, and a new emphasis on increasing its technology base, where is China...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
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...
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: Economic Institutions, Financial Institutions
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: Exchange Rates
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: Goods and Services, Scarcity
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…
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: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
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...
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...
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...
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, Money
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...
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...
