NOT your Grandma's Lemonade Stand
After a review of elementary economic concepts, students will apply their understanding by playing an online computer game, Lemonade Stand. This ga...
Grade: 3-5 6-8    Published: 03/15/2002

To Market To Market
This lesson will help students become good consumers and producers by taking turns buying and selling things in a classroom-created market. Student...
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 05/08/2003

The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?
In this lesson, students investigate the variables that contribute to the cost of gasoline. They learn that while OPEC nations do influence the price...
Grade: 6-8    Published: 07/21/2006

The Prices Are Changing
This lesson will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equili...
Grade: 6-8    Published: 06/11/2009

Fad or Fortune
This lesson focuses on collectibles and how they retain, lose, or gain value. In each round of a trading simulation, students will learn more about th...
Grade: 6-8    Published: 10/25/2005