Take the opportunity to offer your young adults some important financial wisdom on the way taxes and inflation will affect their lives in the future. Through discussion and review of different real-world scenarios provided...

Mission Possible: Your task is to design a new highway route from Tunis, Tunisia to Cape Town, South Africa. If you accept the challenge, you must create a small map of the route that has already been rejected, a...

Middle schoolers see that ecosystems provide services to people that are essential to life as we know it. Reporters (drops of water) could interview the trees and soil in the surrounding ecosystems for news stories on how they helped...

Middle schoolers use the example of natural water purification to show that healthy ecosystems provide services to people that are essential to life as we know it.

In this collection of lesson activities, students will complete an "Econ Explorers Journal" to help them learn how economics is involved in their neighborhood, the books they read, in earning a living, at their banks, in their homes, and...

In this 4th grade unit, young scholars study how citizens and government of the early 20th century sought solutions to problems that accompanied immigration and industrialization. By focusing on child labor, factory working conditions...

PBS's NewsHour Extra provides an Economic and Government lesson plan covering the economic crisis and its impact on the U.S. and global markets. Students must utilize current media outlets covering the financial crisis and refer to the...

An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they investigate changes in population for different Texas counties, and the...