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Welcome aboard as you learn how to engage students in applying economic concepts to the ultra low-cost airline market.

Critical thinking skills used in economic analysis can allow kids to interpret history in new and exciting ways. Using the French Revolution, understand how price controls meant to protect the poor actually led to one of the bloodiest democratic revolutions in history. Bloodshed could have b…

Yes, there is a market for poo, an industry based on sanitation, and lessons to be learned about human and animal waste.

Cli-Fi, the “hottest” new literature genre, portrays humans dealing with extreme weather situations. Discover how dire events of such as rising water, extreme heat, and freezing temperatures are perfect situations for teaching scarcity, allocation of limited resources, and decision making. D…

In this economics lesson, students will read a popular children's book to learn about entrepreneurship.

Updated! In this elementary economics lesson, students will categorize and prioritize their wants to learn about scarcity and choice. Scarcity is really about knowing that often life is ‘This OR That’ not ‘This AND That’. To be asked to make a choice between ‘this toy OR that toy’ is diffic…

The United States is losing 60,000 acres of wetlands each year. Is this good or bad? Does anyone really want to live in swamps, fens, bogs, and marshes? Or is it better economics to drain the wetlands for other purposes like agricultural development? In this lesson students will learn abo…

In this economics lesson, students will discuss the value we place on guaranteeing quality health care to the elderly.

In this economics video series, students will learn about inflation and CPI.

In this economics lesson, students will learn about how medicare affects the national deficit and debt.