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Using the children's book, "Sam and the Lucky Money", students learn about Chinese New Year and practice decision-making skills using an age-appropriate cost-benefit analysis grid.

This lesson focuses on a group of nineteenth century industrial entrepreneurs described in many history books as Robber Barons. It calls upon students to analyze the activities of these entrepreneurs in order to draw conclusions about the innovations and business practices for which they …

The students will recognize that in order to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, most nations create currency for use as money. They will examine the characteristics of money by comparing and contrasting examples of U.S. and world currencies. Imagining that their classroom is a co…

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Students will exercise their understanding of soft skills through a series of ten scenarios of conflicts that might occur at work.

In this lesson students learn about banks and banking. The study the fractional reserve system, and the role the Fed plays in the money creation process.

The purpose of this lesson is to help you explore the relationship between education and income. Income is earned from one's resources. Those resources might be natural resources (oil field, farm land), capital resources (man-made resources that are used in the production of goods and serv…

On this website, you can see how the frameworks and theories taught in class relate to real-world timely events.

This series of lessons will introduce you to economic data that economists use to assess the health of the economy. You will learn about economic data and what they communicate about the health of the economy. This lesson focuses on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is important for analyz…