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Council for Economic Education

China - Where Will They Fit in the World Economy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Teach scholars why China is so crucial to global economics through an informative resource. Activities include using databases to search for information, watching a video or listening to a podcast, and reading about China's economy as a...
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Color Wheels and Schemes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to use the color wheel in selecting fabric colors for a quilt. They define and demonstrate monochromatic, complimentary, and analogous color schemes. Lesson plan and worksheets are attached in .pdf and .doc formats.
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Introduction To Markets - Lesson Plan: 1 X 1 Hour Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners study the concept of a market. They determine the different purposes of buyers and sellers. They look at the utility of an item and how the value for money affects the decision making of consumers.
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Natural Resources

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders begin the lesson by identifying the different types of natural resources. As a class, they discuss how environments are destructed and how the loss of one natural resource can affect the economy. Using a map, they label the...
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Elasticity

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the meaning of the business term, elasticity, and discuss the main elasticity concepts of price, income, and cross elasticity. They manipulate and demonstrate various business formulas.
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Economic Choices for Exploring the Fronteir

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explain the hardship of economic limitations in Westward Expansion . They describe the effects of fluctuations in supply and demand. They put themselves in the place of pioneers hoping to build a homestead.
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What If?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the relationship between farmers and consumers. In this agriculture lesson plan, students explore supply and demand as they play an economics-based game.
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Making Sense of the World Economy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students apply the economic principles of supply and demand, market economy, competition, unemployment rate, exports and imports and currency exchange rate to China's present economic success and Russia's economic strife.
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Louisiana History-Unit 4: Early People of Louisiana and a Meeting of Different Worlds

For Teachers 6th - 7th
The Poverty Point Culture of Louisiana is described in detail within four slides of this six-slide PowerPoint. Four detailed paragraphs help describe the economic legacy that existed in Louisiana. A table, map, and photo are included to...
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Comparison of Economic Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here is a worksheet in which learners identify and compare economic systems (market, command, mixed, etc.) with 18 fill-in-the-blank questions and a graphic organizer. 
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Recording Artist and MP3 Players

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners explore the concept of being a recording artist. In this recording artist lesson, students determine the costs of producing various music products such as a demo tape, 8-track tape, and a record deal. Learners discuss supply,...
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And Now…the Supply Curve!

For Students 9th - 12th
In this economics learning exercise, students use their problem solving skills to respond to questions regarding the supply curve and its impact on an individual's lemonade stand business.
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Supply & Demand: Finite Resources, Infinite Needs

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss conflict resolution strategies they use in real life. They listen to "Getting to Yes" about principled negotiation. They negotiate the distribution of goodies on a table according to rules and time constraints. They...
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Kids for Conservation: Water Conservation Winter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students rotate through various hands on and critical thinking activites designed to show the amount of water actually used by various people, companies, etc..., and helpful ways of conseving water.
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Economic Activity and Markets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and interpret that economic activity involves making choices in the face of scarcity, therefore making choices involves a cost. They also identify that individuals interact in markets by inducing one another, through...
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Soda Sales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are shown how to chart a supply demand curve, analyze information from a chart and send and receive information to participating schools by use of telecommunications (an added objective could be for fund-raising). They determine...
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Incentives, Profit and the Entrepreneur

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students discuss hypothetical problems associated with price and profit. They discuss the fairness of profit, how it should be measured, and the consequences of setting acceptable levels of profit.
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Mr. Nussbaum

Fort Sumter Reading Comprehension

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
The Battle of Fort Sumter was both the first and the least deadly battle of the American Civil War, with no soldiers lost during the lengthy bombardment. Learn more about the first shots of the Civil War with a short reading passage and...
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Cache: Lesson Plan 1 - Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Archaeologists have discovered a cache of Native American relics. They want to preserve these relics by removing them from the rapidly eroding site to a lab where they can be studied. Native American traditions demand that the items...
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Graphing Monetary And Fiscal Policy Interactions

For Students 9th - 12th
For this economics worksheet, students draw aggregate demand and supply curves for 3 monetary and fiscal policy combinations.
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A Quick Review of Perfect Competition and Monopoly

For Students 11th - 12th
Put your students' competitive interests to the test in this worksheet, which includes ten multiple choice questions that relate to two graphs. One graph details a monopoly, while the other displays a perfectly competitive system....
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Lemonade Stand

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils plan a lemonade stand to compete with another stand and examine their decisions from the consumer and producer's point of view. They discuss the law of supply and demand, plan for their lemonade stand, and write an essay...
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The International Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policies

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this International Effects activity, students read background information then solve several problems from a variety of perspectives with variables.
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Hot Weather, Rain Mean Fewer Pumpkins

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students share their knowledge of pumpkins, then read a news article about how hot weather and rain are affecting the pumpkin crop. In this agriculture and current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and...

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