Grades 6-8, 9-12
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Grades 9-12
Thinking in Webs: Hexagon Personal Finance Puzzle
In this personal finance lesson, students will use hexagonal thinking to define and make connections linking personal finance terms and...
Key Concepts: Insurance, Personal Finance Economics, Saving and Investing
Grades 9-12
Personal Finance Looping Cards: Spiraling Reality into the Classroom
Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.
Key Concepts: Insurance, Money Management/Budgeting, Personal Finance Economics
Grades 9-12
NEW! Can We End Housing Insecurity?
Students compare the economic costs and benefits of helping people who are experiencing housing insecurity and consider the ethical implications.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Role of Government
Marginal Revolution University
Grades 9-12
Valentine's Day Demand Interactive
Key Concepts: Demand, Quantity Demanded
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Valentine's Day Greeting Card Production
Working in small groups, students participate in a production simulation (making Valentine's Day greeting cards) to determine the effects of...
Key Concepts: Costs of Production, Diminishing Marginal Utility, Productive Resources…
Grades 9-12
NEW! Should Private Companies Operate Prisons?
Students analyze and rank the four general goals of corrections to help them determine their personal beliefs about what prisons...
Key Concepts: Incentives, Opportunity Cost, Profit…
Grades 9-12
NEW! Can You Be Fashionable and Ethical?
Students “produce” blue jeans and make business choices about production to simulate the decision of changing from more expensive, but...
Key Concepts: Costs of Production, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Externalities…
Grades 9-12
NEW! What Can We Do About Pollution?
Students play charades to mimic noise pollution and consider the question "what can be done if someone's choices are putting...
Key Concepts: Externalities, Markets and Prices, Role of Government
Grades 9-12
NEW! What is the Most Ethical Way to Fund Public Schools?
Students analyze documents, create a school-funding graphic organizer, and write an email to their state representative with their plan to...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost, Role of Government
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Continental Drift and Comparative Advantage
Combine your economics and geography lessons in this activity that has students reviewing continental drift and the continents of Laurasia...
Key Concepts: Absolute Advantage, Benefits of Trade/Comparative Advantage
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Simple Interest Calculator
This Simple Interest Calculator helps you calculate the interest earned on your investment over a set period of time.
Key Concepts: Interest, Interest Rate
Content Partner
Grades 6-8, 9-12
PBS-NOVA Financial Lab
Managing money is hard! Even when you know what you should do, it can be hard to actually do it....
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Opportunity Cost, Saving
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks
In this personal finance and economics activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.
Grades 9-12
Supply and Demand - Game
In this economics game, students will play through a board game learning about supply and demand.
Key Concepts: Demand, Determinants of Demand, Determinants of Supply…
Grades 9-12
Unemployment Survey - Interactive
In this unemployment game, students will have to decide if a person is employed, unemployed or not in the workforce.
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment