EconEdLink - Webinar Catalogue

Grades 9-12

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology

The controversy surrounding crytocurrency has led to full discussions on how blockchain technology can change the way property rights are...

Key Concepts: Property Rights, Technology

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Grades 9-12

Economics in Space?

Stretch the limits of your students’ thinking beyond planet earth as we answer the question: who should pay for asteroid...

Key Concepts: Public-Choice Analysis, Roles of Government

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Grades 9-12

Engaging the Class: How to Start A Lesson Right

Often you either grab or lose the attention of the majority of your students in the first 5 minutes of...

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Grades 9-12

UFR Using Fiscal Ship

How do you balance the federal budget and reduce the deficit? This game is a fun way to teach students...

Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy

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Grades 9-12

UFR Balancing the Federal Budget

Balancing the Federal Budget -- When I first started teaching economics in 2010, the U.S. national debt was around $13.5...

Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Avoiding Implicit Bias in the Classroom

Leith Thompson that Economics is the language of power, public policy and change and so it is essential that not...

Key Concepts: Economic Development

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Compound Interest

Students learn what compound interest is, how it is calculated, and appreciate the impact it makes on loans and investments....

Key Concepts: Interest

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Promoting Social Action through Economics Curriculum

Using community and globally based social action projects to empower students to take pride in their learning and to foster...

Key Concepts: Consumers

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Grades 9-12

US History and C3 Framework: World Trade after WW II

The post-WWII era brought a vision of economic cooperation between the countries supporting free trade. However, recently, there has also...

Key Concepts: Barriers to Trade, Benefits of Trade

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Grades 9-12

US History and C3 Framework: Why Are Sweatshop Workers Usually Young Women?

That workers in textile factors are usually young women has been a surprisingly consistent phenomenon throughout the history of industrialization....

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Human Capital

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Grades 9-12

Economics, U.S. History and the C3 Framework: Why Did the Colonists Fight When They Were Safe, Prosperous and Free?

This webinar will show teachers how to use the Economic Way of Thinking along with colonial-era data to unravel history’s...

Key Concepts: Decision Making, Division of Labor/Specialization

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Sports Economics: Teaching Entrepreneurship

Most students in a typical American high school are probably wearing footwear and/or athletic apparel produced by Adidas, Nike, or...

Key Concepts: Human Capital, Scarcity

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Grades 9-12

Behavioral Economics: How Emotions Impact

This webinar will explain how to run the classical behavioral experiment called the Ultimatum Game with your students. The discussion...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis

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

Hands On Banking 101

Experience and explore the Hands on Banking® program, aligned with Common Core State Standards as well as national and state...

Key Concepts: Saving

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Grades 3-5, 6-8

Using “New” Children’s Chapter Books to Teach Entrepreneurship

This session features two new chapter book series: Cleo Edison Oliver: Playground Millionaire and Billy Sure: Kid Entrepreneur. Participants will...

Key Concepts: Income, Saving

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Grades 3-5, K-2

Using Children’s Literature to Teach Elementary Math and Economics

Discover how picture books can give your classroom an instant boost by combining literature, math, and economics to teach activity-based...

Key Concepts: Money

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