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How do you balance the federal budget and reduce the deficit? This game is a fun way to teach students how federal taxing and spending go hand in hand. It allows participants to choose the policies they wish to fund while cutting taxes and spending. Fun way to figure out how to balance the b…

In this economics lesson, students will learn about Rhetoric and how it effects the economy. 

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about short and long term goals in order to be a successful saver. We save money to get things we can’t afford to buy now. Saving for the future requires patience but it can be worth it when we get what we want the most. Succ…

ESSENTIAL DILEMMA Were the contradictory responses political leaders had to the panic of 1893 driven more by economic/political self-interest or by differing visions of what kind of country they wanted the United States to be?

In this personal finance lesson, students will compare simple and compound interest on savings.

Students will apply their knowledge of economics to the analysis and interpretation of jokes, quotations, and cartoons in economics. Students will watch a Paul Solman video of an interview of Yoram Bauman, the Stand up Economist. Students will use Daryl Cagel's cartoon website, Jokes …

In this personal finance activity, students match terms about saving with their definitions.

In this personal finance activity, students will identify the purpose of compound interest and how it works to build savings.

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated creations. Encourage your students to create a caption, add thought and/or speech bubbles, and place concept labels and clip art stickers to reinforce or change th…

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated creations. Encourage your students to create a caption, add thought and/or speech bubbles, and place concept labels and clip art stickers to reinforce or change th…