Students role play as international traders from different continents. They negotiate prices and resolve trade barriers to better their understanding of free trade.

Students analyze evidence of society's socioeconomic goals, prioritize goals, and identify the opportunity costs of limited government funding.

Young scholars explore mathematics by participating in a group activity. For this number value lesson, students identify the uses for decimals and how to best estimate whole numbers based on decimals and fractions. Young scholars...

Students research pet food safety laws to find out what is required in general, explore what fellow students consume, consult with veterinarian about what he or she thinks about pet food safety, present findings to classmates, and...

Students use a magazine article/picture to explain consumer spending and discuss the key elements that influence consumer spending.

Students identify what motive people. They will learn about both positive, and negative incentives. They will use this knowledge to make predictions about how people will behave. They will apply this knowledge to economics.

Students participate in a scenerio in which they are assessed on the material in previous lessons. In groups, they prepare a presentation based on their solutions to the given problem. They develop their critical thinking skills applying...

Learners research controversial issues surrounding the energy debate in the U.S. They role-play as stakeholders in this debate and testify to a mock congressional committee responsible for making decisions about public lands and energy...

Students examine how he world eats breakfast. In this food choices lesson, students work in groups to list breakfast foods and their ingredients and find goods and consumers on the list. The, students use the Internet to complete a...

Students investigate their personal strengths, skills and aptitudes. They examine and present information about jobs that might meet their qualifications.

Students complete a concept map on how money matters in our society. They use the internet to discover an online exhibit about money. They also complete a concept map.

Students explore volcanoes.  In this deep sea volcano lesson students complete a worksheet and various activities.

Learners complete a survey about how much they know about radon. They calculate the mean scores for each question and graph them. They discuss the results as a class.

Middle schoolers complete and discuss a radon survery. They calculate the average for each question based on the response. They graph the responses and analyze the information.

Students determine how much money is needed for a service learning project. They create a graph or chart to explain the budget for the service project. They complete budget worksheets as their plan goes into action.

Sixth graders explore the Korean culture through the book, Finding My Hat. They read and discuss the book in literature circles and write in response journals after each chapter. Comparing the main character to themselves, they note the...

Fourth graders create mock advertisement campaigns.

Fourth graders explore data, charts and graphs. They create graphs using titles, labels, axes, intervals, and scale correctly. Students enter their data into Excel and create a graph.

Students explore jobs in different countries . In this lesson about different countries through research. Students are broken into groups and given a country to research. Each group is provided with a worksheet with 14 questions to be...

An introduction to basic concepts in beginning economics.

This student version of an economics lesson plan focuses on allocation. For a lesson about how the rule of force motivates, check out this informative website.

By the end of this section, you will be able to interpret production possibilities frontier graphs, contrast a budget constraint and a production possibilities frontier, explain the relationship between a production possibilities...

Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine how various factors of production are affected by global competition and how resources are allocated differently due to global competition.

This lesson introduced the basics of a branch of economics known as welfare economics, which is interested in how the allocation of resources affects well-being. The most important concepts used in welfare analysis are total surplus and...