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In this personal finance lesson, students will identify the opportunity cost of a spending decision.

Friday the 13th was your lucky day. You won the lottery! The lottery officials have given you a choice. You can either receive the $10 million now in one lump sum, or you can receive $1 million a year for the next 20 years. Now what do you do?

In this economics lesson, students will use a budget plan to make spending decisions.

In this lesson students learn about banks and banking. The study the fractional reserve system, and the role the Fed plays in the money creation process.

In this personal finance lesson, students will compare the impact of time on long-term investments.

Students will investigate the unforeseen costs of car loans and/or house loans. They will then evaluate the economics of decision making, the ramifications of their choices, and options available to them. Students will compute costs and savings for a car and/or house loan with or witho…

In this economics lesson, students will analyze responses to the COVID-19 crisis to learn about fiscal policy and its limits.

Fairy tales have always been used to give lessons about life. The story of Jack and the Bean Stalk is a good lesson about the importance of knowing about money and banks. The story of Jack asks the question, "What is money?"

In this personal finance video series, students will learn about Savings, Investment, and Financial Markets.

Newly updated! This series of lessons will introduce you to economic data that economists use to assess the health of the economy. You will learn about economic data and what they communicate about the health of the economy. This lesson focuses on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a measure …