Election Lessons
We have provided you several EconEdLink lessons and interactives that you can use with your students as you discuss the elecition issue of Health care. These resources are at no cost to you and can be accessed from any computer. Note that there is a teacher version, a student version and a mobile version for each one of the lessons.
In this lesson students will learn about the basic components and terminology of individual health insurance. Students will make decisions about the value of insurance protection and you will identify trends in the cost of medical care in the United States.
The Price We Pay for Health: US and Canada
Students will review the health systems of United States and Canada. They will identify the positive aspects of each system. They will look at the trade-offs associated with those positive aspects. In Canada, everyone has health care, but certain specialized medical services are not always a...
Production Possibilities Curve
Students will apply the concepts of scarcity, choice, and opportunity costs using a production possibilities curve. Students will interpret points inside and outside the curve. As an extension, students will see the relationship between a country's aggregate production function and its production ...
Focus on Economic Data: U.S. Employment and the Unemployment Rate, April, 2012
This lesson examines the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, announcement of employment data and the unemployment rate for the month of April, 2012, reported May 4, 2012. This lesson introduces the basic concepts of the BLS employment and unemployment data. The meaning and importan...
Trade, Exchange and InterdependenceINTERACTIVE
This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family use: that is, they do not grow all their own food, sew their own clothes, build their own house and provide themselves personally with health care and education. Instead, p...
Optimists at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University are pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies, looking to greater longevity and better health. As part of his series on Making $ense of financial news, correspondent Paul Solman explores a future...