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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Sand Art Brownies

In this lesson, you will learn about substitute goods. You will have choices to make in your role as a...

Key Concepts: Externalities 3, Scarcity 4

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Grades 3-5

What Face do you Use?

The students will recognize that in order to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, most nations create currency for...

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Grades 3-5

To Be or Not To Be?

This lesson guides students through web sites that examine careers that are typically of interest to 3rd- through 5th-grade students....

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Grades 6-8

Agent Pincher: The Case of the missing Susan B. Anthony Dollar

Agent Penn E. Pincher is again called out on a case. It seems that in 1979 the U.S. Bureau of...

Key Concepts: Money 1, Money 2

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Grades 6-8

Agent Pincher: P is for Penny or Where did money come from?

Over time everyone has had a pocketful of pennies, it’s not something we think about very much. But what if...

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Collecting for Fun . . . and Profit?

Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people...

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Grades 9-12

The Economics of Voting: What Do You Mean My Vote Doesn't Count?

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

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Grades 9-12

What Do You Get for Your $1,818,600,000,000?

Using MS Excel and data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis web site on federal government spending, students will compare...

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Grades 9-12

Economic Sectors and International Development

Using poverty rate as a measure of development, students select countries five at a time to compare how resources are...

Key Concepts: Balance of Payments 1

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Grades 3-5, 6-8

How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice

In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a...

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Grades 9-12

Business Ownership: The Franchise Option

Students explore an alternative to starting a business from scratch – investing in a franchise. They begin by considering the...

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Grades 9-12

Government Spending: Why Do We Spend the Way We Do?

Students look at definitions for the three categories of federal spending and using the internet locate examples of each. They...

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Be an Energy Saver

This lesson focuses on the scarce and nonrenewable nature of fossil fuels in order to stimulate student thinking about energy...

Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Economic Institutions 1, Marginal Analysis 2

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

This lesson introduces regulation and information as two tools used by government to promote fair competition and complete information in...

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Grades 3-5

Money Comes and Goes

Students read two online stories that introduce them to the elements of a budget and show that a successful budget...

Key Concepts: Balance of Payments 1, Budgeting/Money Managment

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Grades K-2, 3-5

What is Competition?

Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, and that...

Key Concepts: Marginal Analysis 1

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