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Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: The Amazing Adventures of 'Savings Man'
Paul Solman speaks to the founder of an organization funding creative public service ads on saving money.
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Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Crises Can Spawn Societal Opportunities
Author Jared Diamond discusses his new book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"" with NewsHour business correspondent Paul...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Paul Solman Explains Good Banks vs. Bad Banks
Business correspondent Paul Solman explores the problem of banks holding toxic assets and explains splitting banks into "good" and "bad"...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Global Trade Freezes Amid Economic Downturn
Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how the global economic crisis has impacted trade.
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Economists Place Their Bets With 2009 Predictions
Paul Solman focuses on predictions for the economic year ahead and interviews "stand-up economist"" Yoram Bauman in his second report...
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Yoram Bauman, Standup Economist
Paul Solman plays straight man to "stand-up economist"" Yoram Bauman at the 2009 American Economic Association convention in San Francisco."
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Hints of Crisis Eluded Many Top Economists
Paul Solman asks economists why few experts connected the dots in time to warn the public about the coming recession.
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Key Infrastructure Repairs May Boost Economy
Paul Solman reports on how infrastructure spending may be a crucial way to resuscitate the economy.
Grades 9-12
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Low Consumer Confidence Limits Holiday Spending
Paul Solman looks at the psychological causes and effects of lower consumer confidence through the holiday season.
Grades K-2
The Mitten
This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Allocation, Allocation…
Grades 3-5
Cowboy Bob Builds a Community
A cowboy rides into a ghost town and decides that it needs to be rebuilt. Students will select the necessary...
Grades 3-5
Jobs: Who Needs 'Em?
In this lesson, students will look at the importance having some kind of job. At early ages they sometimes get...
Grades K-2
Funny Money or Phony Money?
Money is what we use to show what goods or services are worth. When you do work, you are paid...
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 3)
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Economic Institutions, Entrepreneurs…
Grades 3-5
How Labor Got Its Day
If you asked students what comes to mind first when they think of Labor Day, what do you think they...
Grades 6-8
The Civil War: A War of Resources
The North won the Civil War in large part due to its superior resources. In this lesson students will learn...
