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Students will learn how a payday loan works by watching a video. They will learn that payday loans are an expensive form of borrowing and then calculate the total cost of a payday loan using several methods (table, graph, and form...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students view a video and answer questions about Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Graphs of real GDP per capita are used to demonstrate that the same set of data can be shown in different ways. Students are introduced to the concept ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Graphs and charts can easily be adjusted to reflect a specific viewpoint. This can lead to such visualizations sometimes telling only part of a story. Use this interactive to experiment with different chart constraints to see how ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This lesson utilizes the October 29, 2014, statement of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to explore the Federal Reserve's twin goals of price stability and full employment. This lesson discusses the recen...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students explore the advance estimate of real GDP data for the third quarter of 2014. These data, released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, are presented first as estimates, then as revisions as more data for th...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson uses the latest employment and unemployment data release by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the month of October, reported Nov. 7, 2014. The lesson presents the kinds of unemployment and a...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), students investigate the latest release for September 2014. Students will explore what a "good" inflation rate is, and why 0% or deflation is harmfu...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students explore the revised real GDP data for the second quarter of 2014. These data, released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, are presented first as estimates, then as revisions as more data for the time peri...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson utilizes the September 17, 2014, statement of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to explore the Federal Reserve's twin goals of price stability and full employment. This lesson discusses the too...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson uses the latest employment and unemployment data release by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the month of September, reported Oct. 3, 2014. The lesson presents the various BLS definitions r...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), students investigate the latest release for August 2014. Students analyze the components of the inflation rate measure, explore the issues with resp...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The growing American "share economy" makes use of people's preexisting and underutilized assets and time. Hospitality website Airbnb helps turn empty guest rooms into makeshift hotel rooms. But what happens to actual hotels and be...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Students participate in a group activity in which they are assigned a business. They use breakeven analysis to calculate the number of units that must be sold or at what price each unit needs to sell in order to recover the variab...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students are introduced to the concepts of supply and demand. They will construct a supply and demand graph, compute the equations of the lines, utilize a system of equations, and solve the system by the substitution method to con...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson students solve an optimization problem based on the real-world example of profit maximization. Students analyze a revenue and profit report for Apple, Inc. to explore profits and profit maximization. They view a vid...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students participate in a series of activities that provide them with a simulated credit score and an auto loan interest rate based on their credit score. Then they learn to use compound interest and amortization schedules to calc...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students take an online survey and their responses to the survey are used to calculate a simulated credit score. Students learn that in order to obtain credit from a lender, applicants must provide a credit history, which includes...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
For the first time since 2008, the unemployment rate has fallen below 6 percent. The latest jobs report depicts a better rebound in the labor market than last month's report predicted. For an in-depth analysis of the figures, econ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Increasingly popular ride-sharing services have attracted customers at a rate that some say endangers the cab industry. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the new surge of unregulated competition on the road.
Octobe...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Xerox, a $22 billion company, is the first Fortune-500 corporation to have a female CEO. Its commitment to a diverse workforce began in the 1960s, when the founder pledged job opportunities for the African-American community. Econ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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