Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Analyzing Federal Reserve Data
How do you assess the health of the economy? In these lessons, students will analyze data in real time by linkin…
Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
The 58th Annual Financial Literacy & Economic Education Conference
Registration is now open for our 58th Annual Financial Literacy and Economic Education Conference, October 4-5, 2019 in Los Angeles, California! Our annual conference is the country’s premier event for educators to exchange ideas while learning about opportunities to incorporate personal finance and economics into your K-12 classroom. Join us for workshops, panels, exhibits, award presentations, and more!
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Financial IQ quiz
The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is excited to be part of CNBC’s Invest in You: Ready. Set. Grow., a financial wellness and education initiative in partnership with Acorns. Our first contribution to Invest in You: Ready. Set. Grow. is the “Financial IQ” quiz published with an introduction by Gabriel Tanglao, a recipient of our Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Teaching Champion award.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Cybersecurity, Personal Finance and Economics
How do students avoid running up a bill on their parents’ credit cards while they’re using an app? How do you recognize false information on the internet? These are a sample of the questions answered in these cybersecurity lessons where students will explore basic concepts personal finance and economics.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Math in the real world
A collection of lessons and activities that teach important personal finance and economic concepts in the context of math lessons.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Investing in a College Education
Every high school student is faced with one of the most important decisions of their lives: whether to go to col…
Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Math in the Real World
Many economics and personal finance concepts overlap with math curriculum, but economics and personal finance te…
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Grades 9-12
Preparing Your Form 1040
In this personal finance lesson, students will use an IRS Form 1040 to calculate personal income tax.
Key Concepts: Taxes
Grades 6-8
Tic Tac Taxes
In this economics lesson, students will learn about taxes and the reason for taxes.
Key Concepts: Taxes
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 3-5
Goods and Services: Some are Private, Some are Not
In this economics lesson, students will create a bulletin board town to learn about taxes.
Key Concepts: Taxes
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Productivity Video and Quiz
In this economics video, students will learn about productivity and play a Kahoot! game.
Key Concepts: Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization, Productivity
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On This Day in Economic History
May
23
1946
On this day, the Railroad Trainmen and Locomotive Brotherhoods started a strike to improve wages after their return from WWII. Because the nation was still heavily dependent on railways for transportation of goods the strike was short-lived and the workers got their wage increase.