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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Bonds and Bond Yield to Maturity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will deal with Bonds, that are long-term promissory notes, specifying that the creditor will receive regular interest payments for the term of the agreement and then receive the face amount of the bond....
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Digital History

Digital History: British Mercantilism and the Cost of Empire [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the theory of mercantilism and how it affected the economies of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. Practice making a bar graph showing the value of exports to and imports from England between 1700 and 1774 with...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Exploring Media Messages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Recognize negative aspects of advertising and how advertising exploits young people. Examine how the media tries to define a person's style, values and ideas, and take a stand against negative media images.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Clickers to Generate Supply and Demand Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson has students using clickers to generate data for demand and supply curves. It asks students to give numerical values for their maximum willingness to pay for something and their minimum willingness to accept for something....
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Le Bron James, the Cavaliers, and Derived Demand

For Teachers 9th - 10th
PBS video author Paul Solman reports that LeBron James has added $200 million in value to the city of Cleveland since 2003. His presence brings in $100 million each year to the workers and local businesses surrounding the NBA team. The...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Fad or Fortune

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan focuses on collectibles and how they retain, lose, or gain value. In each round of a trading simulation, students will learn more about the value of their collectibles and discuss why items gain or lose value. They will...
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Digital History

Digital History: Paying the National Debt [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, as he tried to find a way to pay off the national debt. See how his ideas were opposed by James Madison, and why the issue was not just economic, but political. [pdf]
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Foreign Economic Relations

For Students 9th - 10th
Exports were the key to South Korea's industrial expansion. Until 1986 the value of imports was greater than exports. This situation was reversed, however, in 1986 when South Korea registered a favorable balance of trade of US$4.2...
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Gcse: Newspapers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tutorial on newspapers. Looks at types of newspapers, the language of newspapers, news sources, what has news value, marketing, distribution, circulation, readership, online newspapers, editorial stance, ownership of newspapers, and...
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Other

Amos Web: A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.
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Other

Designs by Nick Finck: The Why and How of Blogging

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you want a simple introduction to blogging? This site utilizes large graphics in a step-by-step format to walk you though what a blog is, some examples of blogs, the tools of blogging, the different types of blogs, and related topics.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Tribes We Lead

For Students 9th - 10th
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to...
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Other

Teach Me Finance: Finance Tutorials

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you looking to learn basic financial concepts? Teach Me Finance offers easy-to-use tutorials that introduce learner's to financial literacy.
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Yale University

Yale Department of Economics: Surplus Labor [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An evaluation of the microeconomics of surplus labor, this 26-page requires Adobe Acrobat.