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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Professinoal Sports: If You Build It, Will They Come?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Special interest groups are able to have a substantial impact on the political system. Such groups can provide valuable services to individuals and to elected officials. They also can generate substantial benefits to a small minority.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Classroom Cash Incentive Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn more about the economy through this informative lesson. "In this lesson, you will learn how the incentive program affects the personal choices you make in class. You will also analyze how economic incentives can affect behavior."
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Clipping Coupons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore this website to find out how and why consumers make choices on what products to buy. Learn how producers entice consumers into buying their products. This is a very informative lesson plan.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Incentives Influence Us

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Find out more about the concept of incentives in our economy through this lesson plan. "You will identify incentives used at home and school."
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: Technology's Impact on Family Life

For Teachers 3rd
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about technology's impact on family life.
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Learn About Green Infrastructure

For Students 9th - 10th
The EPA provides many ideas for integrating green infrastructures into communities. This site also discusses how this can build climate resilience and offers resources for doing a cost-benefit analysis, for addressing government...
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: The Energy Report: Solar Energy [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 10 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It examines solar energy, its history, and how it is used. The solar power industry in Texas is described, its economic importance, methods of producing it, and how it is...
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: The Energy Report: Hydropower [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 19 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at hydroelectric power, its history, and how it is used. Hydropower in Texas is described, its economic impact, how it is produced and its availability. The costs and...
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: The Energy Report: Wind Energy [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 11 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at wind energy, its history, and how it is used. The wind power industry in Texas is described, its economic importance, how it is produced and transmitted, and its...
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Oregon State University

Oregon State University: Smile Program: Optimization Methods

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners in this instructional activity explore the benefits of the network model to learn about optimization, while discovering cost reduction through efficiency. Download the ZIP file to access the resources. Includes a PowerPoint, a...
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Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future: Succeeding [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through information, examples, and practice, students learn about the costs and advantages of post-secondary education, how to understand the potential earnings and benefits of a job, how to make a budget, and why it is important to...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Evaluating Other Energy Sources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive lesson where young scholars examine the different costs and benefits associated with renewable and nonrenewable sources of electricity. Includes a 22-question interactive module where they look at real-world data and...
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Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center: Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life

For Students 9th - 10th
While many technology experts and scholars have concerns about the social, political, and economic fallout from the spread of digital activities, they also tend to report that their own experience of digital life has been positive. This...
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London Grid for Learning: History of Computing: A Brave New World

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource aims to teach the history of computing and the effect of landmark moments in computing history on today's world. Crosses different curriculum areas. Explanations of many of the world's significant computers were provided by...
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Philip Mc Rae: Growing Up Digital (Gud) Alberta (2016) Enhancing/distracting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this study, researchers tried to better understand the scope of physical, mental and social consequences of digital technologies in areas such as exercise, homework, identity formation, distraction, cognition, learning, nutrition, and...
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Philip Mc Rae: From Distraction to Addiction?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To better understand the scope of physical, mental and social consequences of digital technologies in areas such as exercise, homework, identity formation, distraction, cognition, learning, technology compulsions, nutrition and sleep...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Hawaiian Economics: From the Mountains to the Sea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Ancient Hawaii was ruled by chiefs, who were responsible for the well-being of their people and for managing the islands' resources. The chiefs divided the islands into land districts shaped like pie slices called Ahupua'a (ah-who-...
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Tutor2u

Tutor2u: Market Failure Positive Externalities

For Students 9th - 10th
This site examines how society can benefit by producing and consuming more of a product that causes a positive externality.
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Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: What Are the Possible Consequences of Privacy?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
This lesson plan examines some of the possible consequences of privacy. Students will classify these consequences as benefits or costs. Later, they will be asked to evaluate positions on issues of privacy by thinking about the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Socially Efficient and Inefficient Market Outcomes

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you've learned about marginal social cost and marginal social benefit in this four-question exercise.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Chevy Volt It's Electric!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The costs and benefits of owning an electric or hybrid car will be evaluated in this instructional activity. By reading and researching the history of the production of electric cars, the instructional activity allows learners to...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Keep the Strike Going? Or End It? That Was the Question

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will be able to describe the circumstances around the 1998 NBA players strike, list the incentives that influenced player and owner decisions, and identify the costs and benefits the strike had on various groups.
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Seeds Foundation: Energy Literacy Series: Wind Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains all about wind energy, what it is, how it is produced, potential benefits and costs, etc.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Fewer Watts and Fatter Wallets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners learn about incentives for alternative energy programs and the role played by non-price determinants in energy choices.

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