How Can You Decide Among Competing Responsibilities?

Your young learners will delve into the language of primary source documents in order to identify the characteristics, benefits, and costs of nonviolence. The lesson includes a mix of activities, including an anticipatory activity,...

Two transportation companies must decide the best way to compete. How will that decision affect their prices? Using College Board materials, future test takers examine the problem and think critically to solve it. Other prompts examine...

Equity. Increased productivity. Price stability. Environmental protection. Decreased poverty. Governments establish socio-economic goals and then must design and fund programs to address these goals. Groups investigate various programs...

The adventures of the New World came at a cost for Native Americans. Scholars investigate the economic side of settling the European colonies. Using video clips, statistical evidence, and primary sources, they create hypotheses and...

Michael Phelps, the economist? Scholars research the economic advantages of specializing in one kind of service, and how it relates to athletes doing the same in their respective sports. They evaluate absolute advantage, production, and...

As part of a study of the American Revolution, class members engage in an inquiry-based lesson plan that has them watch a scene from the play Slave Spy, examine multiple primary source documents, and then discuss the similarities and...

In this Native American pottery worksheet, students will look at examples of Navajo pottery online and complete 5 short answer questions about the pottery. A rubric for evaluating the answers is included.

Monopoly is more than a game in this presentation, which explores the characteristics of four different market models. Representing the concept of a monopolistic economy in both charts and graphs, the information in these slides can be...

Taking your young economists through the characteristics of four market models (Pure Competition, Pure Monopoly, Oligopoly, and Monopolistic Competition), this presentation uses both charts and graphs to illustrate the necessary...

Poring over the details and characteristics of monopolistic and oligopoly systems, these slides include charts, graphs, and key terms to help viewers truly grasp the concepts behind each market model. From budding economists to...