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This lesson from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' EconLowdown site teaches students what it means to save and reach savings goals through the book Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier.

Students practice interpreting and drawing GDP graphs as they analyze why some data can be deceiving.

Students work together to identify the benefits and costs of conservation. Next, working in groups, students develop two different incentive plans to conserve energy at their school.

This lesson supports the Open Economy: International Trade and Finance section of the Advanced Placement Macroeconomics course. This lesson introduces net capital flows and examines their effect on the macroeconomy through the loanable funds market. This lesson appears as Lesson 5, Un…

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn supply and demand by utilizing a system of equations.

In this elementary lesson, students focus on the economic concepts of price, goods, and services. Knowledge is applied by comparing the pricing of a good (pizza) and a utility service (electricity), highlighting how prices can vary for essentially the same goods and services based on differe…

Students will take a "Virtual Tour" of the Eiffel Tower in Paris France and locate the price of a bottle of water at each viewing platform. They will need to problem solve how to pay for admission, buy the water and be able to pay for the telescope at the top of the tower- all for…

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.

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…