How do different communities celebrate special occasions? After researching celebrations in their countries, class members investigate other festivals like those associated with Ramadan, Diwali, Chinese New Year, Halloween, Easter,...

A thorough and fun lesson on Korea! In groups of four (Social Chair, Historian, Translator, Travel Agent) class members research North and South Korea to determine a good location for an overseas institute for studying abroad. Once this...

Using Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, guide your class in the process of identifying unknown terms using context clues and formulating text-based answers. The lesson plan includes a useful worksheet incorporating scaffolding questions on an...

Gapminder collects hundreds of statistics related to global economic, health, and social development and analyzes the relationships between them across different countries and time (a few indicators go back to 1800).

Why do people worry about inflation? What are the economic effects of inflation?.

When you hear someone talk about the economy, it's pretty likely they'll say something about inflation. What is inflation anyway?.

How does inflation affect a country's well-being? What are some examples of high and low inflation?.

How is inflation measured? What is the consumer price index?.

Read about gross national product (GNP), national income, and net national product (NNP).

Does GDP capture everything we care about in an economy?.

Read about fluctuations in Gross National Product (GDP) from year to year.

Read about Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and how we measure it.