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Grades K-2, 3-5
A Chair for My Mother
In the story, A Chair for My Mother, a little girl and her family save money in a jar to...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Goods and Services
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Grades 9-12
Balancing the Federal Budget
ESSENTIAL DILEMMA When, if ever, should the nation prioritize balancing the federal budget?
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Credit…
Grades 9-12
Medicare and the National Debt
In this economics lesson, students will discuss the value we place on guaranteeing quality health care to the elderly.
Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Markets…
Grades 9-12
Public Choice Economics
Students participate in a series of classroom elections to analyze special-interest effects and see how the costs of voting and...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Public-Choice Analysis
Grades 9-12
Inflation and Unemployment - Is There a Correlation?
Updated! Perfect for an integrated economics and math or technology lesson. Students use Excel to create scatterplots, regression line equations,...
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Inflation
Grades 9-12
Medicare, Governance, and the National Debt
In this economics lesson, students will learn about how medicare affects the national deficit and debt.
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Budgeting
Nearpod version available
Grades 9-12
Saving
In this personal finance lesson, students determine their monthly earned income and estimate how much they could be saving.
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Roles of Government
Grades K-2, 3-5
Specialists Light Up Our Lives!
Peppe and his family moved to America to pursue the American dream. His mother has passed away, his father is...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Specialization, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades K-2, 3-5
Scarcity - Playful Economics | Lesson and Demo
Shanan Riegle, an award-winning teacher from Yorktown Elementary School in Indiana, demonstrates how to use play dough to teach the...
Key Concepts: Scarcity
Grades 9-12
Productivity and Graphing Linear and Quadratic Functions
In this lesson students interpret key features of graphs for both linear and quadratic functions in the context of total...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues
Grades 9-12
How Will I Pay for College?
In this lesson, students will learn about current trends in student borrowing and determine a reasonable debt load for hypothetical...
Key Concepts: Borrow, Budgeting, Credit…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
In the story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, Alexander receives a dollar from his grandparents that he...
Key Concepts: Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Spend
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Interest Calculator
This interest calculator can be used to calculate the monthly payments and final amount paid on a loan for various...
Key Concepts: Credit, Interest
Nearpod version available
Grades 9-12
Distribution of Income
In this personal finance lesson, students will learn how productivity and government policy influences the distribution of income.
Key Concepts: Distribution of Income, Income Distribution, Productivity
Grades K-2
"What Pet Should I Get?" Dr. Seuss and Decision Making
Recently published, but likely written between 1958 and 1962, What Pet Should I Get? is the delightful tale of a...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goods and Services…
Grades 9-12
The Entrepreneur Video
Teach your students about the benefits of being an entrepreneur. In this video a young woman starts her own business...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Consumption, Division of Labor/Specialization…
