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Federal Reserve Bank of New York
This page from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provides information in the following areas: About Us, Banking Information, Economic Education, Job opportunities, News Items, Publications, Economic Research, Savings Bonds,...
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Social Science Education Consortium
Ssec: Minimum Wage: Does Raising the Rate Help Young Workers? [Pdf]
This investigation will help students examine issues related to the minimum wage, including: What does economic theory suggest will result in minimum-wage earnings and employment if the minimum wage is increased? Does an increase in the...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 5: A New Order
This extensive learning module examines the impact of the Gilded Age upon new cultural and intellectual movements, expansion of foreign trade, and political debates over economic and social policies, as well as the impact of the rise of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Decisions Within a Budget Constraint
Another approach to maximizing utility uses indifference curves (sometimes called utility curves) and budget constraints to identify the utility optimizing combination of consumption. Read about this method in this article.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Entrepreneur in You
This website is a valuable resource in finding out more about being an entrepreneur. It contains a comprehensive lesson plan detailing what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Introduction to Macroeconomics
This article summarizes the learning objectives and essential knowledge for the lesson on Scarcity. Here you will find key terms, key concepts, common misperceptions, and discussion questions to help you review what you have learned....
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: World War Ii Impact on u.s. Economy and Society
Given background information, students will identify the social and economic impact of World War II on the American home front, such as the Great Depression, rationing, and increased opportunity for women and minority employment.
A&E Television
History.com: 7 Negative Effects of the Industrial Revolution
While the Industrial Revolution generated new opportunities and economic growth, it also introduced pollution and acute hardships for workers.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Off to Interactive Island
This site is a lesson that teaches young scholars about scarcity and choice. Students participate in a simulation where they are asked to make choices about what they want to take with them in order to survive.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Why Johnny Can't Choose
If you don't know what the economy is or how it works, this site is for you. It is broken into subsections that make it easy to understand the economy.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: You're Going to College
Interactive game gives students the chance to learn about costs and benefits, the cost of college, and potential lifetime earnings.
Curated OER
The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...
Curated OER
The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Why Nations Trade
This lesson plan is about the reasons for International Trade.