Key Concepts: Demand, Financial Risk, Rate of Return
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Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Specialization using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
In this economics lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that reinforces the concepts of specialists/entrepreneurs, workers, capital resources, and products.
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurship, Productive Resources, Specialization
Grades 3-5
Teach Producers and Consumers using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
This economics and personal finance lesson takes students through the process of producing a good to sell to a fictional...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Income, Producers
Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Human Capital using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle
In this economics and personal finance lesson, students will examine the human capital of Squirrel, Sloth, and Mr. Peacock and...
Key Concepts: Human Capital, Productivity, Specialization
Grades 9-12
Personal Finance Looping Cards: Spiraling Reality into the Classroom
Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.
Key Concepts: Insurance, Money Management/Budgeting, Personal Finance Economics
Grades 9-12
Can We End Housing Insecurity?
Students compare the economic costs and benefits of helping people who are experiencing housing insecurity and consider the ethical implications.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Role of Government
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Valentine's Day Greeting Card Production
Working in small groups, students participate in a production simulation (making Valentine's Day greeting cards) to determine the effects of...
Key Concepts: Costs of Production, Diminishing Marginal Utility, Productive Resources…
Grades 9-12
Should Private Companies Operate Prisons?
Students analyze and rank the four general goals of corrections to help them determine their personal beliefs about what prisons...
Key Concepts: Incentives, Opportunity Cost, Profit…
Grades 9-12
Can You Be Fashionable and Ethical?
Students “produce” blue jeans and make business choices about production to simulate the decision of changing from more expensive, but...
Key Concepts: Costs of Production, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Externalities…
Grades 9-12
What Can We Do About Pollution?
Students play charades to mimic noise pollution and consider the question "what can be done if someone's choices are putting...
Key Concepts: Externalities, Markets and Prices, Role of Government
Grades 9-12
What is the Most Ethical Way to Fund Public Schools?
Students analyze documents, create a school-funding graphic organizer, and write an email to their state representative with their plan to...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost, Role of Government
Grades 9-12
Deceptive Advertising: Crossing the Line
Businesses use advertising to tell consumers about the goods and services they are selling. Businesses hope that their advertisements will...
Key Concepts: Advertising, Business Costs and Revenues, Economic Institutions…
Content Partner
Grades 3-5
Shark Scam: Money Tales
Students read about two scheming sharks and decide were to invest their money.
Key Concepts: Financial Investments, Goods and Services, Money
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Continental Drift and Comparative Advantage
Combine your economics and geography lessons in this activity that has students reviewing continental drift and the continents of Laurasia...
Key Concepts: Absolute Advantage, Benefits of Trade/Comparative Advantage
Grades 9-12
Federal Budget: The Fiscal Ship Game
In this lesson, updated with 2023 statistics, students learn about the challenges of the federal debt and play the Fiscal...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Roles of Government
Grades 9-12
How Can You Apply Ethics and Economics to Any Issue?
In this economics and ethics guide, students will use the ethical and economic way of thinking to examine the choices...
Key Concepts: Decision Making
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Product Differentiation: Design and Advertise a Shoe
In this economics lesson, students will design and advertise shoes to learn product differentiation and advertising in markets.
Key Concepts: Advertising, Market Structures, Monopolistic Competition
Grades 9-12
Should We Allow a Market for Transplant Organs?
Should you be able to sell your kidney? Students explore the ethics and economics of organ donation while learning about...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Decision Making, Markets and Prices…
Content Partner
Grades 6-8
Dinner Discussions at Maggie Walker's House
Students study historic objects, photographs and documents, research influential members of the African American community and role-play a dinner party...
Key Concepts: Banking, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Curious George Economics
Use the lovable character Curious George to capture student attention while teaching about personal finance and economics.
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Productive Resources, Saving…