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Grades 9-12
High School Economics: Unemployment Survey
In this economics lesson plan, students conduct their own employment survey to calculate an unemployment rate.
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National Economics Challenge
The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is the country’s only economics competition of its kind for high school students. It tests micro and macroeconomic principles as well as knowledge of the world economy.
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Content Partner
Grades 9-12
The Great Recession Simulation
In this economics lesson, students will learn about incentives behind bank loans.
Key Concepts: Financial Institutions 2, Risk Managment/Insurance
Content Partner
Grades 9-12
Public Goods and Asteroid Defense
In this economics lesson, students will learn about public goods.
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions 1
Publication
Grades 9-12
Financial Institutions and Services
In this personal finance lesson, students will look into financial institutions to learn about personal investing.
Key Concepts: Financial Institutions 1
Grades 9-12
Keynes vs. Hayek: The Rise of the Chicago School of Economics
In this economics lesson, students will compare different schools of economic thought to learn about the role of government.
Key Concepts: Externalities 1, Externalities 2, Market Failure
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Case Study on Productivity (Part 1) - Henry Ford and the Model T
In this economics lesson, students will create an assembly line to learn how specialization increases productivity.
Key Concepts: Specialization 1, Specialization 2
Grades 9-12
Graphing a Lorenz Curve and Calculating the Gini Coefficient
In this economics lesson, students derive a Lorenz Curve and Gini coefficient in order to represent income distribution.
Grades 9-12
Money is What Money Does
In this economics lesson, students will research the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to learn about the functions and characteristics of money.
Key Concepts: Money 1, Money 2
Grades 9-12
NYSE Made Easy
In this personal finance lesson, students will make choices about buying stocks.
Key Concepts: Financial Institutions 2
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Sweet Opportunities - Three Types of Business Organizations
In this economics lesson, students will learn about 3 types of business organizations using candy companies.
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs 2, Game Theory, Market Structure 2…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Time Value of Money
In this economics lesson, students will learn how the value of money changes over time.
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Marginal Analysis 2, Money 1…
Grades 9-12
Just How Powerful is the Fed Chair?
In this economics lesson, students will learn about the powers of the Federal Reserve Chair.
Grades 9-12
Production Possibilities Curve
In this economics lesson, students will use a production possibilities curve to learn about scarcity and opportunity cost.
Key Concepts: Externalities 3, Scarcity 4
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Where Does the Price of Pizza Come From?
In this economics lesson, students will examine data for buyers and sellers to learn how prices emerge in a market.
Key Concepts: Factor Markets, Market Equilibrium 1
Grades 9-12
Behavioral Economics Lesson One: Introduction to Behavioral Economics
In this economics lesson, students learn about behavioral economics to understand individual behavior.
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Marginal Analysis 2
Grades 9-12
Sports Economics: To Build or Not to Build
In this economics lesson, students will examine a public-private partnership to learn about opportunity cost.
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions 1
Grades 9-12
Green Eggs and ...Economics?
In this economics lesson, students will learn key economic concepts found in children's literature.
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Game Theory, Marginal Analysis 2…
Grades 9-12
Economic Data Lesson: Economic Policy Options
This is the final lesson in a series of lessons that introduces students to the economic data that economists use...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments 1, Business Cycle 1, Business Cycle 2…
Grades 9-12
Unemployment Data: Is the Economy Healthy?
In this economics lesson, students will learn about economic data and what they communicate about the health of the economy.
Key Concepts: Business Cycle 1, Business Cycle 2, Employment/Unemployment…
Grades 9-12
Marginal Analysis
In this economics lesson, students will use marginal analysis to optimize real life decisions.
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Marginal Analysis 2
Grades 9-12
The Business Cycle: Introduction to Macroeconomic Indicators
In this economic lesson, student will analyze graphs to learn the parts of the business cycle.
Key Concepts: Business Cycle 1, Business Cycle 2, Economic Growth 2…
Grades 9-12
Taxation and the National Debt
In this economics lesson, students will analyze arguments concerning income and corporate taxes and the impact of national debt.
Key Concepts: Fiscal Policy 1, Fiscal Policy 2, Taxation 1
Grades 9-12
Inflation and Unemployment - Is There a Correlation?
Updated! Perfect for an integrated economics and math or technology lesson. Students use Excel to create scatterplots, regression line equations,...
Key Concepts: Employment/Unemployment, Phillips Curve 1, Unemployment 1
Grades 9-12
How Will I Pay for College?
In this lesson, students will learn about current trends in student borrowing and determine a reasonable debt load for hypothetical...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Marginal Analysis 2…
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Grades 9-12
Using Systems of Equations with Supply and Demand Application
In this personal finance lesson, students will learn supply and demand by utilizing a system of equations.
Grades 9-12
The Economics of Pro Sports: Why are the Cowboys and Yankees so Valuable?
This lesson investigates the value of sports franchises in the various professional sports leagues. Students will investigate the revenues and...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Globalization 1, International Trade 2…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
The Columbian Exchange
In this lesson, students learn that the Columbian Exchange resulted in an enormous exchange of goods, resources, and institutions between...
Key Concepts: Globalization 1, Goods and Services 1, International Trade 2
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 1)
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments 1, Economic Institutions 1, Entrepreneurs 2…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Why do we need money? Think about Ebay!
The students investigate money--its purpose and functions. They complete an exercise, using the online acution site Ebay, to learn why...
Key Concepts: Exchange Rates
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Industrial Entrepreneurs or Robber Barons?
This lesson focuses on a group of nineteenth century industrial entrepreneurs described in many history books as Robber Barons. It...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Entrepreneurs 2, Marginal Analysis 2
Grades 9-12
Closing the Gap
In this economics lesson, students will identify factors affecting GDP in different countries.
Key Concepts: Economic Growth 2, GDP 2
Grades 9-12
U.S. farmers and the Cuban embargo
In this economics lesson, students examine trade barriers using the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba.
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments 1, Barriers to Trade 2, Foreign Policy…
Grades 6-8, 9-12
I Don't Want Much, I Just Want More: Allocation and Decision-Making
In this economics lesson, students will assess the costs and benefits of product allocation methods.
Key Concepts: Externalities 3, Scarcity 4
Grades 9-12
Wages and Me
In this economics lesson, students will identify factors influencing wages.
Manual
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics
This economics manual provides a framework for teaching economics in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Professional Development
Grades 9-12
Exchange Rates: How Money Affects Trade
In this economics lesson, students will compute exchange rates to learn their impact on international trade.
Key Concepts: Globalization 1, International Trade 2
