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Grades 9-12

Let's Talk Turkey: Inflation and the Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner - Updated for 2022!

Updated for 2022! Use the cost of a typical Thanksgiving dinner to teach your students about inflation and the CPI.

Key Concepts: Consumer Price Index (CPI), Inflation

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Looping Around the World: A Game of International Trade

In this economics lesson, students will use looping cards to define and provide examples of the terms associated with international...

Key Concepts: Benefits of Trade, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

90 mins.

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Grades 9-12

Economic Misery and Presidential Elections

Updated with new statistics! The students examine economic data in order to predict the results of presidential elections.

Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Fiscal Policy, GDP

45 mins.

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Voters and Elections

Updated with new data! Students identify costs associated with voting. Then they make predictions about who might be more likely...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis

45 mins.

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Grades Higher Education, 9-12

Voters and Elections

Is voting really free? What keeps registered voters from actually voting? Learn the answers to these questions that explain the...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Fiscal Policy, Incentives…

60 mins

Nov 10 6:00-7:00pm ET

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Grades 9-12

AP Macroeconomic Series: Making Sense of Comparative Advantage and Barriers to Trade

Learn how to help students succeed with solving input problems, calculating terms of trade, and graphing trade scenarios.

Key Concepts: Barriers to Trade, Comparative Advantage, Competition…

60 mins

Nov 28 5:00-6:00pm ET

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Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

The Advice I Would Give Myself During My First Year of Teaching

Through this webinar learn usable and helpful strategies for rising up to infamous challenge of being a first year teacher.

Key Concepts: Aggregate Demand

60 mins

Sep 21 6:00-7:00pm ET

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Grades 9-12

Current Events in Economics - Russian Sanctions

In this webinar, you will explore the unprecedented scope and scale of economic sanctions placed on Russia in response to...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade, Budget Deficit, Credit…

60 mins

Apr 20 5:00-6:00pm ET

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Grades Higher Education, 9-12

EconoFact

On this website, you can see how the frameworks and theories taught in class relate to real-world timely events.

Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Fiscal Policy, Income Distribution

20 mins

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

The Economics of Immigration: Government Policy and Reform

This webinar features migrants vs. immigrants, government policy, social reforms, and the economic impact of immigration.

Key Concepts: Competition, Decision Making, Incentive…

60 mins

May 26 5:00-6:00pm ET

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

The Economics of Immigration: Immigration throughout History

In this webinar, you will learn the historical concepts of immigration, its push-pull factors, and the entrepreneurship of immigrants.

Key Concepts: Decision Making, Division of Labor, Entrepreneur…

60 mins

May 25 5:00-6:00pm ET

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Grades Higher Education, 9-12

Black History Month: The Possibilities of Black Upliftment

In this webinar, you will dive into the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Resmaa Manekem, and Paulo Friere to explore...

60 mins

Feb 24 6:00-7:00pm ET

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Grades Higher Education, 9-12

Black History Month: The Cost of Black Trauma

In this webinar, you will learn to help students reconceptualize African American trauma based on historical contexts.

60 mins

Feb 17 6:00-7:00pm ET

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Grades Higher Education, 9-12

Black History Month: Who Desegregated Major League Baseball: Adam Smith or Jackie Robinson?

In this webinar, you will explore how markets work and how they have historically helped break down barriers to discrimination.

60 mins

Feb 08 6:00-7:00pm ET

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Grades 9-12

The European Union: Past, Present, and Future

In this webinar, you will explore the genesis and development of the European Union over time and ponder its future.

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Economic Institutions…

60 mins

Mar 01 7:00-8:00pm ET

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Fake News Fibbage - Teaching students how to avoid online misinformation

In this webinar, you will explore Fake News Fibbage, a unique activity that teaches students about misinformation.

Key Concepts: Public-Choice Analysis, Technology

60 mins

Mar 08 6:00-7:00pm ET

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

COVID Isolation Abroad: Economic Lessons from Barbados

In this webinar, you will see the economic lessons learned from the most expensive "vacation" taken by economics teacher Amanda...

Key Concepts: Budget, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goods and Services…

60 mins

Jan 18 5:00-6:00pm ET

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Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Your Personal Finance for Teachers: Planning for Retirement

In this personal finance webinar, sound advice and strategies for teachers planning to retire from education will be offered.

Key Concepts: Consumer Economics, Personal Finance Economics, Technology

60 mins

Oct 13 6:00-7:00pm ET

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Grades 9-12

The Economics of Incarceration

In this economics webinar, analyze the outcomes of the current state of the prison system and law and order beliefs...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Government Failures/Public-Choice Analysis, Scarcity

60 mins

Dec 14 6:00-7:00pm ET

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Grades K-2, 3-5

Hispanic Heritage Month: Using Picture Books to Teach Economics, Ethics and Civil Rights

In this economics webinar, learn how to use picture books to teach students about diversity, community organization and representation.

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Opportunity Cost, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

Oct 05 7:00-8:00pm ET

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