Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Market Ability
Marketplace, a daily economics news program heard on National Public Radio, featured a story on January 8, 2002, titled "Microsoft Invades the Kitchen." In this segment, reporter Aaron Schachter describes consumers' enthusiasm, or lack...
Council for Economic Education
Council for Economic Education: Learning, Earning, and Investing
This course is subtitled "Lessons for a New Generation." It includes twenty-one downloadable lessons with additional activities for each lesson. It covers a wide range of topics from basics such as "Why Save?" and "Invest In Yourself" to...
Careers New Zealand
Careers Nz: Market Researcher
Very descriptive overview of the job of a market researcher. Read about the job, skills needed, education needed, working conditions, and much more.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Let's Go to the Furniture Market
This lesson is designed to have students use linear programming to relate mathematics to the business world. Students calculate profits for a furniture business to prepare for the famous, semi-annual "Furniture Market" in North Carolina.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: As Far as the Eye Can See
View a variety of television advertisements analyzing visual and verbal features and how these are combined to communicate ideas. Write a coherent essay which expresses and argues a viewpoint about a chosen marketing strategy, linking...
Other
The Motley Fool: To Educate, Amuse & Enrich
A community for investors to discuss the market and strategies. The Motley Fool publishes their own content as well.
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Alliance for Investor Education: Investor's Clearinghous
This site is dedicated to facilitating greater understanding of investing, investments, and the financial markets among current and prospective investors of all ages.
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Foundation for Teaching Economics: Homepage
The Foundation for Teaching Economics is committed to excellence in economic education. The Foundation offers free workshops for high school educators and students. This site includes workshop dates, locations, and registration...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Investing in Human Capital
When you teach somebody, they and society both benefit from training and education. What's in it for you?
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Classroom Economist: Unemployment
This lesson takes a look at the labor market and includes a discussion of how the labor market differs from a product market, what the different ways of looking at it are, and how to measure it.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Closed for the Holiday [Pdf]
"Closed for the Holiday" is an excellent account of the consequential events of the Great Depression focusing on the Stock Market Crash of 1929 as the beginning of the Great Depression, and ending with the emergency bank actions Franklin...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Stock Market Project
Students pick a stock that they would like to follow for a period of 2 weeks. Each day they look up the stock and chart its price. At the end of the two week period they graph their data using the graphing calculator. They compare their...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Prices Are Changing
This instructional activity will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equilibrium price is, and how demand and supply interact with price changes.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Professional Sports: Underpaid Millionaires?
Over the last century, professional baseball has grown to become one of the most popular forms of American entertainment. Indeed, the sport's nickname - "America's Pastime" - has become embedded in the nation's lexicon. More than 60...
Pearson
Pearson Education: Practice Reading Selection: Grade 7
This resource presents two reading selections followed by extended response and multiple choice comprehension questions. Students read the fiction selection "A Letter from New York" by Jean Lawler and answer eight questions covering...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Educator Page)
This lesson plan ask students to calculate the percentage change in military strength over the last two decades, hypothesize economic (and non-economic) explanations for these changes, test hypothetical explanations by reading an...
Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: National Brands Versus Private Labels and Generics
This article compares national brands to generic brands, with respect to prices, customer satisfaction, and product differentiation.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Great Gatsby: The Roaring Twenties
This lesson focuses on the Roaring Twenties, an era of great economic growth, widespread prosperity, and new technologies. This is era featured in The Great Gatsby; it began at the end of WWI and ended with the Stock Market crash in...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Virtual Economics Web Companion
The Virtual Economics Web Companion for K-12 economics and social studies teachers was created by the National Council on Economic Education. A wide variety of educational materials and lesson plans can be accessed through this site....
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Maximum Employment
Highlights the goal of maximum employment and features labor market measures and terminology.
Pearson
Pearson Education: Reading Practice: Section 8
With this resource, students read two texts, "Ready for Anything" by Jean Lawler and "Jane Goodall" from What a Life by Milada Broukal, and answer the reading comprehension questions that follow. Students can print their answers for...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Perfect House
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of Multi-Attribute Compositional Models, in which market experts determine what features are most in demand for a given product. The lesson is...
Employment Spot
Employment Spot: Back to School
Perhaps it's time to consider further education or training. In today's job market, the competition is fierce. Applicants are more qualified and better educated than their counterparts of only a few years ago. Many times, the only way to...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: History of Monopolies in the United States
Monopolies in the United States have existed in many forms. When a business dominates a market, its market power makes it a monopoly. How these businesses use their market power will determine the legality of the monopoly.