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Grades 9-12
The Unemployment Game
In this economics lesson, students will participate in a labor market to learn about unemployment rate.
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment
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Grades 6-8, 9-12
Where Does the Price of Pizza Come From?
In this economics lesson, students will examine data for buyers and sellers to learn how prices emerge in a market.
Key Concepts: Demand, Markets and Prices, Supply
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Do I Look Like I'm Made of Money?
In this economics lesson, students will learn the importance of money as a medium of exchange.
Key Concepts: Human Capital, Income, Money
Grades 6-8
What Is Money? Why Does It Have Value?
In this economics lesson, students will learn about the history of money and its 5 characteristics.
Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
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: Benefits of Trade, Comparative Advantage, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
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: Opportunity Cost, Roles of Government, Taxes
Grades 9-12
Green Eggs and ...Economics?
In this economics lesson, students will learn key economic concepts found in children's literature.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Division of Labor/Specialization, Market Structures
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 Markets, Markets and Prices, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
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 and Return
Grades 3-5
Cybersecurity and Personal Finance: Appily Ever After
When working online, children aren't usually aware that parents have to enter a credit card in order to pay for...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Credit, Goods and Services
Grades 3-5
Cybersecurity and Economics: Protecting Your Identity Online
How do you help students practice safe behavior online? In this lesson, students learn the do's and don’ts through the...
Key Concepts: Choice, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades 3-5
Cybersecurity and Economics: Goldi and the Three Passwords
In this lesson, students learn about how to create good passwords and the risks of not doing so. Through an...
Key Concepts: Choice, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades 6-8
Cybersecurity and Economics: Social Media and You
How do you make wise decisions about posting on social media? In this lesson, students will learn how to differentiate...
Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
Grades 6-8
Cybersecurity and Economics: Evaluating Websites
In this lesson, students access a website to research the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, which is a hoax. The initial...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Fraud, Incentive
Grades 6-8
Cybersecurity and Personal Finance: Identity Theft
Anyone can become a victim of identity theft. Protecting one’s identity can help reduce the potential of becoming a victim...
Key Concepts: Credit, Fraud
Grades 9-12
Economic Data Lesson: Economic Policy Options
This is the final lesson in a series of lessons that introduces students to the economic data that economists use...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Business Cycles, Economic Institutions…
