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Trading in a Marketplace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete a trade simulation in a marketplace. In the simulation, they role play the role of producer and consumer of goods and apply the concepts of supply and demand. In groups, they discover how an environment can affect the...
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Playing the Stock Market

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze how the performance of a company affects its stock value resulting in profits or losses. They simulate buying stock and earning dividends.
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Lesson Plan: (Stock Market Investigation)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students simulate making a $100,000 investment in the stock market following a specific set of criteria. They track the stocks for two months, buying and selling stocks in a diversified portfolio.
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Bead Game Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners have the opportunity to participate in the three basic economic systems, (market, command, and tradition).
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Al Mercado

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars investigate the concept of a market. They produce a dramatization to simulate the daily activities found inside. Students ask questions about the price, location, and use of items. The acting strengthens communication...
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The Economy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Math: Working with Mayan Numbers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars simulate a Mayan market place, and "purchase" items. They keep a record of their purchases and total number of beans left in their account. Students then convert the Mayan base system into the base ten system. This lesson...
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It's About Supply and Demand

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Watch an Instructional Television (ITV) video and participate in a simulation to explore supply and demand and how those two forces affect price.
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Store Design

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students develop a new store idea by designing the physical layout, creating flyers, and creating a storyboard submitted on a foam board. The Smart Draw software program is suggested to aid in drawing the store layouts.
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Money Versus Trade

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners discover the importance of exchanging money in a market. For this economics lesson, students discover natural resources and how one can barter with those resources. In addition, learners complete worksheets and discover the...
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Task: Storage Sheds

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Bridge the gap between mathematics and Career Technical Education. Pupils research the cost associated with building storage sheds and analyze possible profit. They build scale models and determine if building and selling the sheds is a...
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Read That Label!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore reading nutritional labels and making good food choices through simulation. They prepare and design a label for a product. In addition, they create packaging and advertising to ensure access to the population.
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Consumerism - Grocery Shopping

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch a video on how marketers plan their strategies in supermarkets. In groups, they are given a set amount of money and asked to go through a grocery store simulation with a list. After the simulation, they discuss the...
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Caribbean Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students complete a unit that explores the cultures of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba through cooking. They follow step-by-step directions of a variety of recipes, create a Caribbean scrapbook or cookbook,...
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Carbon Dating

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Simulate C-14 decay using M&M and Reese's Pieces candies. For this scatter-plot lesson, students perform an experiment to simulate the half life of C-14. Information is plotted on a scatter-plot. Students answer four comprehension...
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Value of Education: Education and Earning Power

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore the concept a higher education yields higher earnings. Throughout the class, students visit six workstations and examine occupations, education, salaries, spending, banking, and taxes. As students rotate through the...
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Hit and Run

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils explore data collection in this lesson. They investigate distance vs. time and velocity vs. time graphs using information collected with a CBR 2 to simulate the reconstruction of an accident.
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Name That Tune: Matching Musical Tones Through Waveform Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils detect the waveform of musical notes to determine the code for the "safe" in this forensics simulation instructional activity. They use a microphone and tuning forks along with Vernier EasyData on their graphing calculator to...
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Mining in Texas

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this mining and nonrenewable resources worksheet, young scholars read about mining in Texas and simulate the extraction of nonrenewable minerals. They use cookies and their components to represent the minerals they will mine and they...
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Council for Economic Education

NOT Your Grandma's Lemonade Stand

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students participate in a WebQuest to apply economic concepts. In this economics lesson plan, students are guided to various websites and simulate being an entrepreneur.
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Why People Trade

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics instructional activity, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of...
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Economics: Incentives, Profit, and the Entrepreneur

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars discuss both positive and negative economic incentives. For this lecture-based lesson, they examine a simulation about profiteering drug companies and what might happen if the FDA controlled drug production.
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Federal Reserve Bank

The Fed’s Toolbox

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This lesson is packed with instructional material and activities on the Federal Reserve System, monetary policy, and the relationship between bank reserves, interest rates, employment, and price stability.
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Create and Locate Your Own Business

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners simulate the creation of their own business. Using the internet and database exploration, they research community profiles and select a business. Pupils define the target market and investigate a business location. In...

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