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• Goods and Services
• Did You Get The Message?
• The Prices Are Changing
• Who Is Ben Bernanke?

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Goods and Services
Students will be able to distinguish between people who produce goods and people who provide services to a community.

Grades K-2: www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=642page=teacher

Did You Get the Message?
Advertising is the primary tool used by businesses to tell consumers about the goods and services they sell in the marketplace. Businesses also use advertising to try to convince consumers to buy what they are selling. Advertisements do this by pointing out how consumers will benefit if they buy a product. These benefits are called incentives. In this lesson, these two basic functions of advertising are introduced. Various techniques used to achieve these objectives are also explained. During the assessment activity, students view television commercials directed at them. They identify the various advertising techniques used to grab their attention and convince them to buy.

Grades 3-5, 6-8: www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=634page=teacher

The Prices Are Changing
This lesson will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equilibrium price is, and how demand and supply interact with price changes.

Grades 6-8: www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=747page=teacher

Who Is Ben Bernanke?
This lesson introduces students to the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, Ben Bernanke. It describes briefly his involvement within the Federal Reserve.

Grades 9-12: www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=700page=teacher

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Council for Economic Education
National Association of Economic Educators
Global Association of Teachers of Economics

October 7-10, 2009 
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill,
Washington, D.C.

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More information visit: www.councilforeconed.org/conference/