Grades 9-12
Lost and Found
In this economics activity, students will creatively comment on political cartoons.
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Fiscal Policy, Roles of Government
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Grades 9-12
Social Security and the National Debt
In this economics lesson, students will analyze charts and proposals to learn about the issues facing Social Security.
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Roles of Government
Grades 9-12
The History of Medicare
In this economics lesson, students will learn that Medicare was the fulfillment of what was believed to be Social Security.
Key Concepts: Fiscal Policy, Insurance, Roles of Government
Grades 9-12
Social Security, Governance, and the National Debt
In this economics lesson, students will examine concerns about balancing the budget and the role of the federal government.
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Income Distribution
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Grades 9-12
Petronia
Petronia is an introductory online interactive course on resource governance designed to feel like a simulation and a game.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economics, Fiscal Policy
Content Partner
Grades 9-12
World101: Globalization
In this economics lesson, students will learn about global communications.
Key Concepts: Benefits of Trade, Goods and Services, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades 9-12
The History of Social Security
In this economics lesson, students will examine the creation of Social Security.
Key Concepts: Fiscal Policy, Income Distribution, Roles of Government
Grades 9-12
National Security Goals, the Federal Budget, and the National Debt
In this economics lesson, students will examine defense spending to learn how it can influence the economy as a whole.
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Roles of Government
Grades 9-12
Economic Institutions Video and Quiz
In this economics video, students will learn about economic institutions and play a Kahoot! game.
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Economic Systems
Grades 9-12
NAFTA: Did Jobs Get Sucked Out of the United States?
In this economics lesson, students will analyze data to learn if jobs have increased or decreased since NAFTA was implemented.
Key Concepts: Barriers to Trade, Benefits of Trade
Grades K-2
Communities: What They Provide For Us
In this economics lesson, students will create communities to learn how they provide goods and services.
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades 9-12
Federal Budget: The Fiscal Ship Game
In this economics lesson, students will evaluate fiscal policy objectives to learn the challenges of sustainable national budget formation.
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy, Roles of Government
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
Content Partner
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
Grades 9-12
Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 3)
In this economics lesson, students will partake in an interactive simulation of the stock market from WW II to 2001.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Markets, Markets and Prices
Grades 9-12
Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 2)
In this economics lesson, students will be part of an interactive simulation of the stock market from 1920 to WWII.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Markets, Markets and Prices
Grades 9-12
Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 1)
In this economics lesson, students will read and discuss a joke about market efficiency.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Markets, Investing
Grades 9-12
Where did All the Money Go? The Great Depression Mystery
In this economics lesson, students will identify conditions in the economy to learn about the Great Depression.
Key Concepts: Financial Markets, Markets and Prices, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades 9-12
Economics in Space?
Stretch the limits of your students’ thinking beyond planet earth as we answer the question: who should pay for asteroid...
Key Concepts: Public-Choice Analysis, Roles of Government
Grades 9-12
UFR Using Fiscal Ship
How do you balance the federal budget and reduce the deficit? This game is a fun way to teach students...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy
