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Grades 9-12

NAFTA: Are Jobs Being 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

60 mins

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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

90 mins

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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

90 mins

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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

90 mins

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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

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

60 mins

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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

60 mins

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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

90 mins

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Grades 9-12

Where did All the Money Go? The Great Depression Mystery

In this economic 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

90 mins

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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

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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

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Grades 9-12

UFR Balancing the Federal Budget

Balancing the Federal Budget -- When I first started teaching economics in 2010, the U.S. national debt was around $13.5…

Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Fiscal Policy

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Avoiding Implicit Bias in the Classroom

Leith Thompson that Economics is the language of power, public policy and change and so it is essential that not…

Key Concepts: Economic Development

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Grades 9-12

The Economics of Jim Crow – Engaging Students in the African American Green Books through Document-Based Essay Question

In 1936, an African American mailman living in New York City published the first ever Negro Motorist Green Book. The…

Key Concepts: Economic Growth, Goods and Services

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Grades 9-12

The Economics of Jim Crow – Engaging Students in the African American Green Books through a Lens of Industrialization

In 1936, an African American mailman living in New York City published the first ever Negro Motorist Green Book. The…

Key Concepts: Economic Growth, Goods and Services

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Grades 9-12

The Economics of Jim Crow – Engaging Students in the African American Green Books through Jigsaw

In 1936, an African American mailman living in New York City published the first ever Negro Motorist Green Book. The…

Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Income Distribution

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Grades 9-12

UFR: Social Security & National Debt

Teachers will learn new methods to use while implementing the Understanding Fiscal Policy lesson "Social Security and the National Debt."…

Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt

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Grades 9-12

UFR: President Jackson & Veto of 2nd Fed

During this webinar, teachers will learn how to incorporate an EconEdLink lesson on President Andrew Jackson's Veto of of the…

Key Concepts: Federal Reserve

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Grades 9-12

FRED and the Federal Budget Interactive Lesson

Students will use a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) data dashboard to calculate budget deficits, surpluses, how much federal budgets…

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budget Deficit, Budget Surplus…

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Grades 9-12

THE U.S. SUGAR PROGRAM: A Matter of National Security or Corporate Welfare?

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Is the U.S. Sugar Program a necessary defense against disruptive global trade practices or lavish corporate welfare at…

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Price Ceilings and Floors, Roles of Government…

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