Curated OER
Words in the News: Switzerland's Secret Weaon
Students are asked questions about the World Cup and Switzerland. They practice using new vocabulary words. They read an article about marketing campaigns for the event and answer questions.
Curated OER
International Monetary Fund
Twelfth graders discover the role of the International Monetary Fund. They use the internet to answer questions about the organization. They discuss the positive and negatives associated with the IMF.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: National Budget Simulation
How would you deal with the national budget if you were the President of the United States? What if there was a national emergency? This site includes a budget simulation on the computer that allows students to make real budget...
Econoclass
Econoclass: Money Creation Simulation
This classroom activity enables students to better understand the role of the Federal Reserve and the control of the money supply. The game takes approximately 50 minutes.
Microsoft
Microsoft Education Lesson Plan: Making Money From Lemons
Simulation where learners apply mathematics and economics concepts in the lemonade business. Learners set up a virtual lemonade stand and must determine production costs, product variables, and profits. Students record data collected on...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Financial Calculators
Explore your own financial information in greater detail by using these powerful tools for forecasting and assessing your financial choices. During the process, you might discover expenses you can eliminate or more effective ways to...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Advising the President: A Simulated Cabinet Meeting
This teacher resource fosters learning about the inner workings of the President's Cabinet. Find out how each agency or department must compete for money and support. As the agency chief, you must prepare a presentation for the president...
Symmetry Magazine
Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: Simulations
Simulations are useful research tools for scientists and save a lot of time and money. Some of the ways they are used are described in this article. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an article series that aims to summarize in a few...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Probability Simulations App
This App allows students to explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates rolling dice, tossing coins, and generating random numbers. They use evaluation options such as bar graphs and table of trials data....
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With Probability Simulations App
Explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates the rolling of dice, tossing of coins and generating random numbers. Evaluation options include bar graphs, table of trials data, settings for specifying the number of...
Econoclass
Econoclass: International Finance Classroom Simulation
In this classroom activity, learners are divided into various groups, each being a different "country." Each country has their own currency and goods, and groups proceed to trade amongst themselves. This game covers the topics of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: At the Crossroads
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about making conversions between different types of units by negotiating with a trader at the crossroads. Practice exchanges with different measurement and currency systems in a simulation....
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Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: Why Money? [Pdf]
Middle schoolers learn about barter, and the benefits of using money, as they participate in this trading simulation.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Getting Paid for Our Work
Second graders see how money is used to buy and sell items. They will participate in an activity to see how people get money.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiple Coin Toss Model
Students explore flipping multiple coins through this downloadable java simulation. The complete results of the tossing experiment is shown on a graph of the cumulative probability of heads.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: What Is the Federal Reserve? [Pdf]
Questions like "How does the bank hold reserves?" or "How do banks make deposits?" are examples of what is explained through this banking simulation lesson plan to illustrate the purpose of the Federal Reserve.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Banks, Bankers, Banking
This lesson is a simulation of opening a bank. Students are assigned various roles to play within the banking business. Students learn about the role banks play in a market economy.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Velocity of Circulation
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson simulates a closed market in which goods are bought/sold for money. After the five minute activity, students calculate the amount of money dispersion, and based off of this...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Saving Each Payday
Learners use a real-world simulation to learn how saving a little money each payday can be a successful strategy for saving. Includes teaching guide and student worksheet that can be filled in on a computer.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Percentage
Practice finding the percent of a number by using a money simulation and dragging dollars from one box to the next to represent a percent of the whole.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Theoretical and Experimental Probability: Coin Flips and Die Rolls
A set of questions on experimental and theoretical probabilities using coins and dice. Answers are accompanied by explanations.
Other
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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Making Cents Out of Centimes
Students will learn that most countries create their own currency for use as money. In most of Europe that money is now the Euro. Students will discover the use of Euros in this simulation and learn a little about exchanging dollars for...
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma State University: Ag in the Classroom: Hairy Heredity [Pdf]
A simulation where students flip coins to mimic how parents pass genetic traits to their offspring through heredity. This activity also illustrates the difference between dominant and recessive genes, and how they interact with each...