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Education's library of print publications. Clicking the publication titles will take you to the Council for Economic Education Store for more detailed information. | Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's Guide
Grade: 7-adult Published: 2004
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Section 1: Income and Choices
Participants will understand the importance of spending less than they receive. Participants will understand how competition based on productivity determines the wages and salaries that people receiv...
Section 2: Financial Institutions
Participants identify the advantages and disadvantages of using financial services from alternative financial institutions and services from mainstream banks. Participants identify the services provi...
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 | Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
Grade: 9-12 Published: 2003
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Lesson 10 - The Circular Flow of Economic Activity
In this lesson, the students read about market interactions and participate in a simulation. "Econoland" involves transactions between businesses and households in two kinds of markets: product marke...
Lesson 11 - Money and Inflation
Students observe a simple demonstration to determine the functions that money performs. They next participate in two rounds of an auction illustrating how increases in the money supply lead to inflati...
Lesson 8 - Productivity
Working in small groups, the students participate in a production simulation to determine the effects of specialization on labor productivity, the division of labor, and investment in human capital an...
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 | Focus: High School Economics
Grade: 9-12 Published: 2001
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Lesson 21: Economic Growth and Development
Economic growth is measured by a rise in real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) over time. When a nation's production of goods and services rises faster than its population, real GDP ...
Lesson 18: Economic Ups and Downs
News reports about the economy often refer to data concerning economic growth, recessions, inflation, and unemployment. Students (and adults) should understand these data and how they both reflect an...
Lesson 8: Getting More or Using Less
Although the problem of scarcity can never be eliminated, finding ways to increase productivity can moderate it. Productivity is the amount of goods and services produced (output) per unit of product...
Lesson 20: Aggregate Supply and Demand: The Sum of Their Parts, and More
Over the last two decades, the most dramatic pedagogical innovation in teaching introductory economics has been the use of aggregate supply and demand curves to illustrate key macroeconomic concepts a...
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 | Civics and Government: Focus on Economics
Grade: 9-12 Published: 1996
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Unit 3: Lesson 6 - How Can Changes in the Federal Government's Budget Stabilize the Economy?
The teacher discusses with the class how a market economy like that of the United States goes through the Business Cycle of unstable swings in economic activity. The students then write and perform a...
Unit 3: Lesson 11 - What Can the Government Do About Unemployment?
An understanding of the three types of unemployment and the various policies government can pursue to alleviate unemployment is developed. Students categorize examples of unemployed workers as struct...
Unit 3: Lesson 8 - To What Extent Do Economic Conditions Determine the Outcome of Presidential Elections?
Students consider how economic performance is evaluated and are introduced to four major indicators of macroeconomic performance: growth rate of real income, unemployment rate, inflation rate, misery ...
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 | Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide
Grade: 9-12 Published: 2003
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Unit 7: Lesson 43 - Why Are Some Nations Wealthy?
Students work in groups to examine data from several nations regarding size, natural resources, and population. Using these data, they try to identify the nations and predict whether each nation is r...
Unit 6: Lesson 37 - Can Government Manage the National Economy?
Although economists agree much more often than they disagree, the opinions of prominent economists on economic policy often conflict. This lesson seeks to clarify why economists disagree. Understand...
Unit 6: Lesson 31 - Measuring Unemployment: A Labor Market Mystery
Students examine an economic mystery regarding employment and unemployment statistics. They learn how the Bureau of Labor Statistics measures employment and unemployment. They use the Guide to Econo...
Unit 6: Lesson 33 - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and How to Measure It
Students examine GDP. They distinguish between nominal and real GDP. They study how GDP is comprised of household spending on consumption goods and services (C), business investment spending (I), go...
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.
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