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In this personal finance lesson, students interpret charts and graphs to analyze home buying trends, and then use a mortgage calculator to find out how the size of the down payment, length of the loan, and interest rate affect the cost of a mortgage.

Students will use a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) data dashboard to calculate budget deficits, surpluses, how much federal budgets in certain budget years added to the total public debt, and gross federal debt as percent of GDP. Using the information they have collected, students w…

In this personal finance lesson, students will participate in insurance pools to learn how car insurance markets deal with risks.

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.

This lesson investigates the value of sports franchises in the various professional sports leagues. Students will investigate the revenues and costs of pro sports teams and determine which teams are the most valuable. Lastly, students will understand the specific rules of the game that lea…

This lesson supports the Inflation, Unemployment, and Stabilization Policies section of the Advanced Placement Macroeconomics course. It introduces government budget deficits and the national debt and analyzes the long-run effects of budget deficits on the economy. This lesson appears…

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.