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Updated with new data! Students identify costs associated with voting. Then they make predictions about who might be more likely to vote based on their understanding of opportunity costs.

The students work in small groups that represent households. Each household answers questions about stocks and stock markets. For each correct answer, a household earns shares of stock. At the end of the game, the groups that answered all questions correctly receive a certificate good for…

Students learn how community supported agriculture (CSAs) is changing the relationship between the farmer and the consumer.

In this economics lesson, students will learn that Medicare was the fulfillment of what was believed to be Social Security.

In this economics lesson, students will examine the creation of Social Security.

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

In this economics lesson, students will identify factors influencing wages.

In this economics lesson, students will complete a simulation to learn why certain industries get bailed out.

Compelling question: Are the presidential candidates telling the whole story about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)?

This lesson introduces regulation and information as two tools used by government to promote fair competition and complete information in a market economy. Using the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act as a case study, students explore the reasons buyers and sellers asked the federal governme…