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- 4th - 5th
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Students explore the free enterprise system and the role that buying and selling of holiday goods have upon the economy. They recognize and demonstrate that advertising design influences one's life. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students use basic sewing skills to make a product and explore the free market process. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students explore the fundamental concepts of the Free Market System. They practice note taking and engage in a class activity. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the topic of free enterprise and its relationship to personal freedom. As a class, they brainstorm the ways in which what they do affects the free enterprise system and how technology can make the transistion easier. In groups, they participate in a game to see how easily the system can fall apart. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students participate in two different class demonstrations designed to show the difference between a free enterprise system and a communist system. They discuss advantages and disadvantages of each and decide which would be "better" for society and why. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the concept of free enterprise. In groups, they discuss the price of various food items and decide on which item to produce. They calculate the cost of producing the item and share their results with the class. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students investigate industrialization and explain how laissez-faire policies influenced entrepreneurship. On bubble maps, students locate causes of industrialization. In an activity/demonstration, students role-play as merchants in both free enterprise and government-regulated systems. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the free enterprise system by creating and marketing a small business. After learning the basics of the free market system, students create their own small business, completing all aspects including manufacturing and sales. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students identify and interpret why people want to open a business and why all companies are in business. Then they identify and explain profit motive and voluntary exchange amd discuss as a class. Students also discuss competition, lower prices and better products, and who thinks it is good and/or bad for business. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss product reliability, examine competition and individual freedom on consumers and producers, discuss what variety of goods does for both groups, define and explore concept of free enterprise, and take quiz at end of period. Full Review »
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