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This lesson explores the costs and benefits associated with voting in national elections. Specifically, the concepts of rational apathy, rational ignorance and expressive voting are explained.

This updated lesson is based on the novel, Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. Set mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s, 13-year-old Lyddie Worthen, works six days a week, from dawn until dusk, running weaving looms in a murky dust-and lint-filled factory, trying to save enough money to…

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.

Watch a winning team’s presentation and hear from an expert on what your team can do to help them succeed!

ESSENTIAL DILEMMA How do we know if we are getting good value out of the money we spend on defense?

Students learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems facing our society.

Discover how global threats shape U.S. defense budgets—and bring strategy, security, and policy to life in your classroom!

In this webinar, you will explore how the Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply model can be used to predict the effects of changes.

Decision making can be flawed, and as we try to save for the future, these flaws can be detrimental. But all is not lost!

Join our webinar to discover the high wages of personal security contractors in conflict zones and learn valuable budgeting lesson!