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Grades 9-12
Focus on Economic Data: The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy, March 20, 2015
This lesson utilizes the March 18, 2015, statement of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to explore the...
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Grades 9-12
Economic Indicators for Informed Citizens
Newly updated! This lesson introduces students to three basic economic indicators: real GDP, the inflation rate, and the unemployment rate....
Key Concepts: Employment/Unemployment, Phillips Curve 1, Unemployment 1
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
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...
Grades 6-8, 9-12
What Do People Want to Wear?
To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites,...
Grades 6-8, 9-12
One is Silver and the Other's Gold
Students learn about the money supply and that it can affect the value of money. Students investigate this in the...
Grades 3-5
Inventive Incentive
There are many ways in which people are rewarded or penalized for doing, or not doing, their work. These are...
Grades 9-12
Buying vs. Renting
Have you given any thought to where you will live when you are "on your own" - out in the...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Marginal Analysis 2
Grades 9-12
Income: It Ain't Where You Start, It's What You Got, and Where You End
This year's federal elections will involve electing a president, all members of the House of Representatives, and one third of...
Grades 9-12
The Economics of Professional Sports: Underpaid Millionaires?
Over the last century, professional baseball has grown to become one of the most popular forms of American entertainment. Indeed,...
Key Concepts: Production Function, Specialization 1, Specialization 2
Grades 9-12
Save the Moonflowers
Margaret Mee (1909-1988) was a botanical artist who often traveled up the Amazon River alone in search of rare flowers...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services 1
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Bill, Are You Bogus?
In a barter system, people have to trade goods and services for other goods and services. In an economy that...
Key Concepts: Globalization 1, Goods and Services 1, International Trade 2…
Grades 3-5
I Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum?
Through the use of folk tales, history, and the students' own experiences, students will recognize the inter-relatedness of goods, services,...
Key Concepts: Globalization 1, Goods and Services 1, International Trade 2…
Grades 9-12
Economic Forecasting: An Internet WebQuest
Economics is often called the "science of decision making." The decisions that economists analyze range from personal decisions such as...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Employment/Unemployment, Marginal Analysis 2…
Grades 9-12
Tapped Dry: How Do You Solve a Water Shortage?
Economists do not operate in a vacuum. If an economist is going to suggest that the price of a good...
