Economics and Business Lesson Plans

Reflect on the importance of banks in the current economic condition of the United States. High schoolers will explore the history of banking and money so that they can complete the numerous activities centered around that subject. Each group will participate in interactive activities to better understand consumer concepts. All handouts and resources are included.

Students use recycling as an example to study the economics of business, and to find fixed and variable costs.

Ninth graders research 5 careers within a given field of business or marketing. They form small groups and create a Powerpoint presentation with the data and present it to the class. They incorporate 7 slides, 5 graphics and one animation into their presentation.

Eleventh graders are given an overview and explaination of the budeting process, and examine how the economic choices individuals make can lead to certain positive and negative consequences. They are shown the PreAssessment prompt and they write their responses. Students have a discussion based on the prompt

Learners examine the global economy. In this economics lesson, students participate in reading and research activities about gross domestic product, consumer prices, inflation, consumer price index, industrial production, and unemployment rates in the global marketplace. Learners examine the global economic crisis of 2008 as they conduct further research on the economies of selected nations.

Analyze the issues that affect the state of economies. Have your class explore media reports about recent economic recessions, the housing bubble, and loan defaults in order to chart information about recessions and participate in an activity based on the labor market. This activity is a good way to practice evaluating claims in a text. All links and handouts are included. Use this resource to emphasize textual evidence to support an argument.

Young scholars explore if the aging population has any effect on the economy and overall well-being of society.  In this economic activity, students research the economic impact of the older citizens.  They develop their own ideas and share their findings by writing a paper.  Their thoughts are further developed through class discussion on the topic.

After locating Latin American countries on a world map, children read about how microbanks are loaning money to help start small businesses. Involving both current events and economics, the teacher introduces the article with a map activity and vocabulary challenge. The class reads the news article and participate in a think-pair-share discussion. The lesson includes interdisciplinary follow-up activities.

Students investigate economic growth in China. In this current events lesson, students review a news report about the 2008 Summer Olympics in China and the push for young people in China to learn the English language. An activity worksheet is included with the lesson.

Students discuss supply, demand, scarcity, and opportunity costs and how these may affect business decisions in this Economics lesson for an upper-level High School class. The lesson includes possible cross-curricular extensions.