The South's Decision to Secede: A Violation of Self Interest?
Your students will consider the following questions: In deciding to secede from the Union in 1861, did the South violate its own self-interest and th...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 04/08/2005


Q T Pi Fashions - Learning About Credit Card Use
Credit cards are convenient, user friendly, and at times dangerous. In this lesson students learn the joys and dangers of using credit as they help...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 11/13/2002


Budget Odyssey
Students will begin the Budget Odyssey driving a minibus to Budget Balancing Bliss via a board game. Students will answer questions about income, fixe...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 02/01/2001


Baseball Economics 101
As any baseball fan can tell you, the New York Yankees have won three of the last four World Series championships. The Yankees' recent success--as ...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 05/12/2000


Stock Market Price History
Each of us seek to make wise investment decisions that will make our money grow. Unfortunately, we cannot predict the future, but the past can give...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 05/17/2002


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Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's GuideYour Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's Guide
Grade: 7-adult   Published: 2004
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Section 3: Managing Credit
Participants will identify the advantages and disadvantages of using credit. Participants will recognize what credit is, what it costs, and the basic steps involved in obtaining credit. Participants...
Section 4: A Roof Over Your Head
Participants will understand the benefits and drawbacks of homeownership. Participants will understand the process of buying a home, from before house-hunting to closing and occupancy. Participants ...
Section 5: Strategies for Wealth Building
Participants will understand the concept of net wealth and how the decisions they make can cause their own net wealth to increase or decrease. Participants will explain why an early start in saving a...
Section 6: The Basics of a Market Economy
Participants will identify the characteristics of people who build wealth. Participants will recognize the primary features of a market economy including voluntary exchange, private ownership, a pric...

Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource ManualChoices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource Manual
Grade: 5-6   Published: 2001
3 of the 15 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Unit 4: Lesson 10 - What Are the Advantages of Working with Others to Produce?
Students read historical fiction set in 1855 in the Oregon Territory. The story illustrates the results of people working interdependently. The students identify ways in which the characters in the ...
Unit 3: Lesson 9 - What Results When People Use Improved Physical Capital Resources?
Students learn that using technologies increase production during a business simulation.
Unit 5: Lesson 14 - How Can I Overcome Obstacles to Achieve My Goals?
Students play The Road to Success game. While playing the game, they identify obstacles and ways to overcome obstacles to achieve a goal. They identify the incentives they respond to when they make ...

Choices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work - Grades 9-10 - Teacher's Resource ManualChoices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work - Grades 9-10 - Teacher's Resource Manual
Grade: 9-10   Published: 2002
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Unit 2: Lesson 9 - What Employers Want
In a job interview role-playing activity, students learn about criteria employers use in deciding to hire employees.
Unit 3: Lesson 13 - My Human Capital: A Job Application
Following a study of two realistic dilemmas, students complete a resume and assess their own qualifications for actual jobs.

Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's GuideCapstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide
Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003
3 of the 45 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Unit 5: Lesson 24 - Government and the Environment
Students examine and discuss visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding the failure of the Endangered Species Act. They are introduced to the concepts of market failure and government failure....
Unit 3: Lesson 15 - Why Do Some People Earn More Than Others?
Students examine and discuss visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding differences in income. They use the Guide to Economic Reasoning to analyze the problem and reach a tentative solution.
Unit 1: Lesson 1 - Economic Reasoning: Why Are We A Nation of Couch Potatoes?
Students examine visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding exercise and diet. They use the Guide to Economic Reasoning to analyze the costs and benefits of decisions about diet and exercise. ...

Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School EconomicsEconomics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003
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Lesson 3 - Using Economic Reasoning To Solve Mysteries
Students ponder an economic mystery: Why do professional athletes, many of whom never finish college, earn far higher salaries than people who perform worthy services such as teachers and firefighter...

 

 
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