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Paul Solman asks economists why few experts connected the dots in time to warn the public about the coming recession.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman reports on how infrastructure spending may be a crucial way to resuscitate the economy.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman looks at the psychological causes and effects of lower consumer confidence through the holiday season.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
The amount of trash produced in the United States is mounting with each passing year. Communities are finding it increasingly difficult and costly to handle trash disposal. Recycling is considered a key solution to the garbage pro...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students consider the fact that the value of money differs depending on where the money is being spent. In order to understand this idea, students will first develop a deeper understanding of what it means for mon...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Income taxes can be confusing, but there are a lot of online resources to help us understand them! This lesson takes students through four useful sites, asking them to look for specific information that will broaden their underst...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow white mittens. While he is outside he loses one and some animals, one by one, find it and move in because it looks warm. This sto...
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will become online entrepreneurs, taking risks and changing their production method to increase their profit while running a lemonade stand. This lesson might best be taught after students have learned about the basic con...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
A cowboy rides into a ghost town and decides that it needs to be rebuilt. Students will select the necessary things that a town needs in order for it to function and grow.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students will look at the importance having some kind of job. At early ages they sometimes get the idea that money grows on trees and they should get anything that they want. This lesson will look at the consequenc...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Money is what we use to show what goods or services are worth. When you do work, you are paid with money. When you sell something, the buyer gives you money. Sometimes it’s a lot of money and sometimes it’s just a ...
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons,...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
If you asked students what comes to mind first when they think of Labor Day, what do you think they would say? The last days of summer? A family picnic? Shopping the Labor Day sales? The purpose of this lesson is to broaden and de...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The North won the Civil War in large part due to its superior resources. In this lesson students will learn the difference between capital resources, human capital, and natural resources. They will investigate and compare the re...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The practice of saving and investing is definitely a good thing, but there are many ways to save and invest. In thinking about the options, it is important to consider the degree of risk involved and the potential for return. Typ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons,th...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
When Henry Ford announced he was going to produce an automobile that would be affordable to the masses, it is doubtful even he realized the far reaching impact such an achievement would have on life in the U.S. and eventually, the...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
To get started, the students will read Lyddie, a novel by Katherine Paterson. The novel is set mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s. In Lowell the main character, 13-year-old Lyddie Worthen, works six days a week, from ...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson introduces the concept of monopoly. It calls upon students to consider how monopoly power might affect the quality and price of goods and services offered to consumers. In light of what they learn about the history of ...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people’s lives. In this lesson, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail c...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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