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Grades 9-12

Fiscal Ship

Students will understand how federal policy making decisions, and their associated revenue and spending implications, impact the budget, and will…
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Budgeting, Fiscal Policy
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Grades 9-12

Policy Perspectives on the Federal Budget

In Policy Perspectives on the Federal Budget, a digital interactive activity, students think critically about Federal Budget policy choices from…
Key Concepts: Balanced Budget, Economic Functions of Government, Federal Budget
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Grades 9-12

Policy Perspectives on Medicare

In Policy Perspectives on Medicare, a digital interactive activity, students think critically about Medicare policy choices from the perspectives of…
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Grades 9-12

Policy Perspectives on Social Security

In Policy Perspectives on Social Security, a digital interactive activity, students think critically about Social Security policy choices from the…
Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Scarcity
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Grades 9-12

Taxation and the National Debt (A) | Activity

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated…
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Credit…
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Grades 9-12

Taxation and the National Debt (B) | Activity

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated…
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Credit…
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Grades 9-12

Balancing the Federal Budget | Activity

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated…
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Credit…
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Grades 9-12

Medicare and the National Debt | Activity

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated…
Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Markets…
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Grades 9-12

The Fiscal Ship | Activity

Think like a president! Choose strategies to keep the federal debt in check as you play The Fiscal Ship, a…
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy
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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Interest Calculator

This interest calculator can be used to calculate the monthly payments and final amount paid on a loan for various…
Key Concepts: Credit
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Grades 9-12

Financial Basics Calculators

Every day, you have to make decisions on how to spend your money. Yet, less than 60% of American households…
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Credit…
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Grades 9-12

Buying a Home Calculators

Buying a new home may be one of the most exciting events in your life, but it's a process to…
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Investing
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Grades 9-12

Retirement Calculators

Almost half of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for their future. But it's never too late to start saving…
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Investing
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Grades 9-12

College Calculators

There's no way around it: College is expensive. In recent years, 71% of graduates left college with student loan debt.…
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Investing
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Grades 9-12

Family Finance Calculators

Families expect the unexpected. But by planning for predictable expenses, from diapers and bottles to college tuition, families can accurately…
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Investing
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Grades 9-12

Comparative Advantage Activity

This interactive activity illustrates the concept of comparative advantage in three hypothetical situations: first analyzing two workers in a pizza…
Key Concepts: Benefits of Trade, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Grades 9-12

Break-Even Analysis Activity

This interactive graphs the break-even point using the equation, Breakeven Quantity (BEQ) = Fixed Costs / (Total Revenue per Job…
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goods and Services, Profit
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Grades 9-12

Taxes and Income

This interactive can be used to review progressive, regressive and proportional taxes. Refer to the Math in the Real World…
Key Concepts: Income Distribution
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