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Grades 9-12

How Can You Apply Ethics and Economics to Any Issue?

In this economics and ethics guide, students will use the ethical and economic way of thinking to examine the choices...

Key Concepts: Decision Making

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Product Differentiation: Design and Advertise a Shoe

In this economics lesson, students will design and advertise shoes to learn product differentiation and advertising in markets.

Key Concepts: Advertising, Market Structures, Monopolistic Competition

90 mins

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Grades 9-12

Should We Allow a Market for Transplant Organs?

Should you be able to sell your kidney? Students explore the ethics and economics of organ donation while learning about...

Key Concepts: Allocation, Decision Making, Markets and Prices…

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Can You Allocate Ethically?

In Lesson #4 from the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students work in groups to analyze allocation methods, apply...

Key Concepts: Allocation, Decision Making, Incentives…

45 mins

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Grades 9-12

Does Self-Interest Prevent Economic Justice?

In Lesson #7 0f the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students explore basic ideas of justice by examing government...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives, Veil of Ignorance

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Women in the US Workforce During WWII - Measuring Unemployment

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Employment and Unemployment

45 min

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Grades 9-12

Should I Join the Sweatshop Boycott?

In Lesson #8 of the "Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues" curriculum, students study primary sources to learn about the choices...

Key Concepts: Economic Development, Economic Growth

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Do Businesses Have Social Responsibility?

In Lesson #6 of the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students will participate in a simulation and discussion to...

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Profit

45 min

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Grades 9-12

How Does Information and Ethics Impact Decision Making?

In Lesson #3 from the "Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues" curriculum, students will play the role of a medical professional...

Key Concepts: asymmetric information, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives

60 min

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Grades 9-12

Can You Conduct Research Ethically?

In Lesson #2 of the "Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues" curriculum, students learn about positive and normative economics and how...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Normative Economics, Positive Economics

60 min

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Grades 9-12

Is Efficiency Ethical?

In Lesson #5 of the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students role-play to understand both the power and limits...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis, Scarcity

60 min

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

Stock Prices and the Super Bowl

Harness the excitement of the Super Bowl with this lesson from the SIFMA Foundation for Investor Education. Students analyze the...

Key Concepts: Advertising, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Investing

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Grades 9-12

Interest and Percent Growth

In this math lesson, students will examine and calculate interest on loans and investments.

Key Concepts: Credit, Interest, Saving

90 mins

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Grades 9-12

Integers and Net Worth

In this lesson students explore the concept of “net worth” and how it is calculated. They practice using integers while...

Key Concepts: Credit, Earned Income, Net Worth

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Automatic Stabilizers, What Are They and Are They Effective

Students explore fiscal policy remedies used by the federal government to reduce volatile fluctuations in the business cycle.

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Fiscal Policy

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Grades 9-12

Covid-19 Fiscal Responses Around the World

Student rank, research and compare different fiscal policy responses used by various governments during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

A FiCycle Analysis of GameStop

In this personal finance lesson, students will analyze the value of a stock to a long-term investor.

Key Concepts: Financial Investments, Investing, Money

45 mins

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Grades 9-12

Bankruptcy Basics Lesson for Grades 9-12

Students learn that about bankruptcy, how it is handled, and who it helps.

Key Concepts: Consumers, Credit

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Grades 9-12

College: Learning the Skills to Pay the Bills

This issue of Page One Economics examines two economic models used to study how education, productivity, and income are related.

Key Concepts: Human Capital, Income, Productivity

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Grades 9-12

Building Wealth: Save and Invest, Put It In the Bank

In this lesson, students will compare two savings plans: stuffing a mattress with money and using a bank.

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Credit, Financial Investments…

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