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Unit Plan
Radford University

Business Ownership

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Let's learn a little bit about business! Given information about a t-shirt company, young mathematicians explore the revenue, costs, profits, and future sales. They develop mathematical models for these quantities using linear,...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2000 AP® Microeconomics Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Monopolies may have an advantage in some markets, but what are they? A scaffolded problem set examines the effects monopolies have on a market. Other authentic College Board problems examine labor markets and how a variety of factors...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2004 AP® Microeconomics Free-Response Questions Form B

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A company enjoys a monopoly. What happens to its profits when another firm introduces a similar product? Learners consider the case using questions from College Board. Other prompts include the effects of sales taxes and supply and...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

The Role of Government: The Federal Government and Fiscal Policy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Give learners a crash course in balancing the books on the United States federal government level with an economics and government resource. Class members engage in a warm-up discussion and brainstorming session before answering...
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Lesson Plan
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Break-Even Point

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How do companies determine the prices of their products? Marketing maestros discover the concepts of cost and break-even point through discussion, independent practice, and a collaborative assessment. The career and technology-oriented...
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Activity
PBL Pathways

Solar Toasters

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Help a company maximize their profits! A detailed project-based learning activity examines two production scenarios. Your young scholars write a linear demand function. They then apply the function to develop a revenue, cost, and profit...
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Activity
PBL Pathways

Maximizing Movie Revenue

For Students 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Can theaters increase profits by raising or lowering ticket prices? Using data from the National Association of Theater Owners, classes consider this question. The project-based learning activity includes both a profit and revenue...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Income and Expenses

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students discuss income and expenses. In this lesson on money, students define income and expenses, after whith they keep track of their income and expense transactions on a basic ledger.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bossy Britain Upsets Colonists

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the causes of dissatisfaction that led to the American Revolution. Then they make a Flap Vocabulary Book and glue on a map of the thirteen colonies and make a title page called "Road to War in it." Students also...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I'm The Taxman!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars develop an understanding of how federal revenues are gained by taxes. This foundation enable students to decipher changes in federal tax policy. Groups of young scholars study different types of taxes and prepare...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

IT IS ABOUT SUPPLY AND DEMAND.

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Learners learn that the price of an item is defined by its supply and demand. In this instructional activity students graph the relationship between demand and supply of various products, learners also consider hidden costs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taxes: Where Does Your Money Go?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study taxes and the role that they place in our lives. In this economic lesson, students explore the reality of taxes, how they work, why we pay them, where the money goes and how to make the most of the money you pay into taxes...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

COULD YOU START A BUSINESS?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn how a business starts and finds financial independence. In this lesson, students learn the struggle of financial management, the costs of running a business and how to keep a budget.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The REAL Cost of College

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the cost of college and how to plan and save. In this money management lesson students do research on the cost of college, learn about making financial choices, earning, spending, saving, investing and how they apply to...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Could You Start a Business?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
High schoolers learn how a business starts and finds financial independence. For this lesson, young scholars learn the struggle of financial management, the costs of running a business and how to keep a budget.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Inequalities

For Students 9th
In this inequalities learning exercise, 9th graders solve and complete 18 different types of problems. First, they use systems of 2 equations/2 unknowns to solve each word problem shown. Then, students graph each and identify the vertex...
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Worksheet
Centennial College

Break-Even Analysis Worksheet

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this business worksheet, learners compute various word problems given the fixed and variable costs involved. Then they identify from a list which are variable and which are fixed costs. Students also describe the difference among a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Debt and Deficits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify, research and interpret the national debt and deficits of the past through today and why it has risen significantly in the last 20 years. They analyze the size and impacts and discuss the various policy measures...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Accounting: Changes That Affect Owner's Equity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study transactions that affect the owner's equity of a proprietorship. They explore revenue, expenses and withdrawals and how they fit into the accounting equation. They complete online activities and a quiz.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finance and Accounts 1: Basic Principles

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars distinguish between the terms 'cost' and 'revenue' and examine the concept of 'profit'. They analyze the difference between a profit and loss account and a balance sheet.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Did You Get the Message?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners investigate how advertising gets the buyer's attention and how it influences buying decisions. They then create a print ad for "Burp Cola" and for one of their favorite books.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Your Role as a Taxpayer: Why Pay Taxes?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate the basic rationale, nature, and consequences fo taxes. They describe why governments need taxes as revenue to provide goods and servicesin this series of activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is Taxed and Why

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students are exposed to the need for federal, state and local governments to tax constituents to provide goods and services for their residents. They identify the different kinds of taxes and give examples of the goods and services taxed.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Break-Even Analysis Worksheet

For Students 10th - 11th
In this analysis worksheet, students solve accounting problems when provided with variables to be used in computations. Using data provided, students must answer questions showing they understand key terms such as fixed and variable costs.