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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students retrieve up-to-date, key economic statistics which provide valuable hints about the state of the future economy. They access websites imbedded in this plan, which enable them to answer economic questions. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students explore the U.S. governmental policy of taxation as a tool to influence the actions of both individuals and businesses. Using the internet, classmates explore types of taxes and the purpose of each. In groups, they complete a T-Chart to compare the positive and negative aspects of taxes. Pupils write an editorial for the local newspaper about the potential effects of a current tax proposal. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze economic and political freedoms. Once they identify ways to measure them, they explore the relationship between the two freedoms and social well-being. In groups, they select 20 countries from the four freedom categories and graph the relationship between their economic freedom and the gross domestic product. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine businesses from long ago noting whether they provided goods or services, explore how some businesses have evolved, and discuss how some family names may be indicators of occupations and businesses of the past. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students discuss the benefits and risks of being an entrepreneur. They review and practice the use of adjectives, similes, metaphors, alliteration, and other various literary terms in the context of learning about entrepreneurship. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students are exposed in this lesson on economics the concepts of scarcity and choice. The teacher will read the book, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", by Laura Joffe Numeroff. This book tells about a mouse who has unlimited wants for goods provided by his friend, the boy. The students recognize that everyone has many wants even mice and will create a drawing to demonstrate knowledge of their own wants and needs. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students research the factors of production and the market economy. They will seek to make a profit as they borrow capital, plan the purchase of raw materials, produce a product, track income from sales made during specified market times at school and determine the amount of money their business has cleared after paying expenses. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students apply knowledge and skills to a problem involved with the building of a new middle school. They will analyze a decision such as library arrangement, landscaping design, etc. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the economic concepts of opportunity cost, scarcity, trade-offs, and wants and needs as they relate to consumers individually and as groups. This lesson is ideal for teaching across the curriculum. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students write about economic and banking issues of concern to the public. They investigate lending discrimination and the effectiveness of the 1977 Community Reinvestment AAct in correcting it. Students use this guide to make research and writing your essay a little easier. Full Review »
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