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Grades 9-12

Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 3)

In this economics lesson, students will partake in an interactive simulation of the stock market from WW II to 2001.

Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Institutions, Marginal Analysis

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 2)

In this economics lesson, students will be part of an interactive simulation of the stock market from 1920 to WWII.

Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Institutions, Marginal Analysis

60 mins

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Grades 6-8

The Trading Game: Should LeBron James Mow His Own Lawn?

In this economics lesson, students will play a trading game to learn about voluntary trade.

Key Concepts: Comparative Advantage, Comparative Advantage, Globalization…

45 mins

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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

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 1)

In this economics lesson, students will read and discuss a joke about market efficiency.

Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Institutions, Marginal Analysis

90 mins

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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, Game Theory, Marginal Analysis…

90 mins

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Grades 9-12

Where did All the Money Go? The Great Depression Mystery

In this economics lesson, students will identify conditions in the economy to learn about the Great Depression.

Key Concepts: Financial Institutions, Globalization, International Trade

90 mins

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Productivity Video and Quiz

In this economics video, students will learn about productivity and play a Kahoot! game.

Key Concepts: Specialization, Specialization

20 mins

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Grades K-2

Open for Business

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

Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs, Goods and Services, Risk Managment/Insurance

45 mins

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Opportunity Cost Video and Quiz

In this economics video, students will learn about opportunity cost and play a Kahoot! game.

Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis

20 mins

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Grades 9-12

Policy Perspectives on the Federal Budget

In Policy Perspectives on the Federal Budget, a digital interactive activity, students think critically about Federal Budget policy choices from...

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Grades 9-12

Policy Perspectives on Medicare

In this interactive activity, students think critically about Medicare policy choices from the perspectives of varied personas.

Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis

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Financial Fitness For Life Upper Elementary Test Manual

Grades 9-12

Financial Fitness for Life - High School Test Examiner's Manual

The Financial Fitness for Life: High School Test (FFFL-HS Test) is a standardized test for measuring the achievement of high...

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Grades 6-8

Financial Fitness for Life – Middle School Test Examiner’s Manual

The Financial Fitness for Life: Middle School Test (FFFL-MS Test) is a standardized test for measuring the achievement of middle...

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Grades K-2, 3-5

Financial Fitness for Life - Upper Elementary Test Examiner's Manual

The Financial Fitness for Life: Upper Elementary Test (FFFL-UE Test) is a standardized test for measuring the achievement of upper...

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Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Kate McKinnon talks money with kids. Fun with financial literacy!

Partner Content SNL's Kate McKinnon shows why it's so important that we talk money with kids. Beyond the laughs (and...

Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Budgeting/Money Managment, Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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