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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: UAW Chief Gettelfinger Answers Questions

Retired United Auto Workers members ask union chief Ron Gettelfinger about the future of the union and General Motors.

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

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Paul Solman Explores The 'Paradox of Thrift'

Paul Solman examines how the consumers who decide to save their money instead of spending it may exacerbate the effects...

Key Concepts: Aggregate Demand, Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Consumers…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Where the Bailout Money Comes From

Paul Solman explains how the government will produce the money to fund its economic-rescue measures while trying to keep inflation...

Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Fiscal Policy, Money

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Grades K-2

Teach About Scarcity with "The Mitten"

This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow...

Key Concepts: Scarcity

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 1)

Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Business Costs and Revenues…

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Grades 3-5, 6-8

Work, Earnings, and Economics: "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

This updated lesson is based on the novel, Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. Set mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s,...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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Grades 6-8

The Higher you Climb, The More You Pay

Students will take a "Virtual Tour" of the Eiffel Tower in Paris France and locate the price of a bottle...

Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Demand…

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Grades 3-5

The Color of Resources

This lesson will demonstrate the making of Crayola products to introduce natural, capital, and human resources as well as touching...

Key Concepts: Resources

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Grades 9-12

The Economics of Racial Discrimination | Lesson and Demonstration

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 35: The Economics of Racial Discrimination from CEE's Understanding Economics in U.S....

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

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Grades 9-12

China - Where will they fit in the world economy?

With its, emerging middle class, its new markets, and a new emphasis on increasing its technology base, where is China...

Key Concepts: Consumers, Demand, Economic Systems…

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Grades 9-12

Was Babe Ruth Under Paid?

Updated with 2022 MLB information! This lesson demonstrates a method for teaching students about inflation and the Consumer Price Index,...

Key Concepts: Inflation, Markets and Prices

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Why do we need money? Think about Ebay!

The students investigate money--its purpose and functions. They complete an exercise, using the online acution site Ebay, to learn why...

Key Concepts: Foreign Exchange, Markets, Markets and Prices…

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Grades 6-8

There is Something in the Water

The United States is losing 60,000 acres of wetlands each year. Is this good or bad? Does anyone really want...

Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goods and Services…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Industrial Entrepreneurs or Robber Barons?

This lesson focuses on a group of nineteenth century industrial entrepreneurs described in many history books as Robber Barons. It...

Key Concepts: Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Systems…

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Grades 3-5

The Grasshopper and the Ant

Understanding the concept of opportunity cost is critical for good decision making. The ability to identify the opportunity cost—the highest...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Sand Art Brownies

In this lesson, you will learn about substitute goods. You will have choices to make in your role as a...

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

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