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India: Is Terrorism Hurting the Economy?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the effect of terrorism on the Indian economy. They conduct research on terrorist activity in India, create a timeline, and participate in a summit between Indian and Pakistan.
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India: Outsourcing of Jobs

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the significance and effects of outsourcing jobs to India and Malaysia. They conduct Internet research, create a map and a timeline, write an editorial of their view on the use of outsourcing, and participate in a class...
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From the Store to the Shopper

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners explore the marketing process that companies use, including their advertising campaigns. As a class, they discuss how supermarkets develop new brands, determine how to package their goods, price them, and select the products....
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The Great Depression

For Teachers 7th
Students analyze the causes of the Great Depression. In this Great Depression lesson, students listen to their instructor present lectures regarding the Dust Bowl, stock market crash, and Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Students conduct further...
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Buy Low, Sell High

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students investigate the stock market and investing in corporate stocks by creating an investment portfolio. They develop database worksheets that track their stock's performance over a specified period of time. Students use their...
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Ad Creation from Admongo.gov

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars explore consumerism by completing a worksheet. In this advertisement lesson, students discuss the relationship between the media and consumerism while analyzing advertisements from the Internet, magazines and T.V. Young...
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Who Knew What When?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students define words of relevance to the stock market and fair trading. They explore the significant events surrounding the charges brought against Martha Stewart as a means of learning how the stock market is governed.
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Why Does Money Have Value?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study money and its value and usage in the world today. In this economic instructional activity, students research money as they learn what it stands for, why it is important, how it is valued and what it represents in the...
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Origins of the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, learners respond to 11 short answer questions regarding the Great Depression and the stock market crash.
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Vikings

For Students 4th - 8th
For this Vikings worksheet, students read a passage on the Vikings, answer short answer questions, draw, and research the internet. Students complete 4 activities.
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Lesson 2 How Do You Find Stock Symbols?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students practice finding stock symbols by company, industry, and country. Stock symbols are necessary to find company information such as stock charts, news, and financial data on the Internet.
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The Slave Market: Not Just a Southern Institution

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze the existence of slavery in the North. In this slavery lesson plan, 4th graders research primary and secondary sources regarding Dutch colonial slavery in New York. Students consider how archeology made it possible...
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The Xmas Factor

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine the mass marketing of Christmas. In this gift giving lesson, students visit selected websites to discover the history behind gift-giving, research marketing techniques, and consider giving alternative gifts.
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Google Goes Public

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars investigate how to invest in the stock market. They research how to be a smart stock investor by visiting a variety of websites that deal with the topic.
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Hoodia Hoodoo

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers assess misleading claims in advertisements. After reviewing several advertisements for Hoodia, students compare the claims made to news reports about the product. They conduct research to discover whether the claims made...
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Market Structure: Oligopolies

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students view a PowerPoint presentation on oligopolistic market structures. They conduct further research on a specific industry and comment on the extent to which it represents characteristics of an oligopolistic market structure.
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Contestable Markets

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students examine the issue of contestable markets. They investigate the low cost airlines industry and evaluate how far the market exhibits the characteristics of a contestable market.
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The Labour Market: Flexibility

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students divide into groups to research and produce a short summary outlining the operation of the labour market in the UK. They use supply and demand diagrams to illustrate their discussion.
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Quantitative Easing Explained

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Dig deeper into the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States and actions taken by the federal government, including the bailouts and purchase of institutions as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to bolster financial market conditions.
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Why Scarce Resources Are Sometimes Unemployed

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Why do markets operate inefficiently when the world's resources are so limited? Review the various types of unemployment that exist and why some resources, especially human resources, go unused.
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Malaysia: Foreign Investment Returns

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine the Malaysian economy and the effect of the SARS epidemic. They conduct research, write an editorial evaluating Malaysia's proposed budget for 2004, and develop an advertising campaign to promote business in Malaysia.
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Japan: Farmers Face Global Competition

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine the history of Japanese farming and current international farming issues. They conduct Internet research, create a chart to illustrate the history of farm products in Japan, and simulate a WTO meeting.
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Learning to Be Consumers: The Emergence of Catalogs and Advertising

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners study the historical context of marketing and how it came to be so important in the 19th century. They analyze advertising in the 19th century, 20th century, and today to understand how much or how little has changed.
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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the causes of the stock market crash of 1929.  In this integrated math/history unit on the stock market, 6th graders study, research, and read stocks, visit a local bank, and create a PowerPoint to show the finished...

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