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A Perfect Pet
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The introduction to this lesson is a brief online story about a little girl’s visit to a pet store with her father. She considers several pets before choosing a “cute and cuddly” dog. Students are reminded that p... more »
Grades: K-2, 3-5 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
College: Where am I going to go?
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Students will use a PACED decision making grid to help them decide where they would like to attend college. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Price Elasticity: From Tires to Toothpicks
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Students gain an understanding of price elasticity of demand and why different goods have different degrees of elasticity. Students learn how to calculate price elasticity of goods. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Little Bill the Producer!
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This lesson teaches the most basic vocabulary about production. People who make goods and provide services are called producers. This lesson only deals with the student making something (not identified with being a good), and... more »
Grades: K-2 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
To Buy or Not To Buy
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While precise numbers are not known, it is believed the number of boycotts has grown markedly in the past fifty years. Consumers seem to be besieged by requests from special interest groups to refrain from buying certain good... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Timing Is Everything
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In the first part of the lesson students examine the incentives and opportunity costs of spending and saving in a teacher directed lesson. The remainder of the lesson is an interactive web site. Students work through problems... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Trade in Colonial America / NAFTA
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Often teachers and students are able to internalize historical and economic concepts through a more recent event that has occurred within their time frame. This lesson is an extension for the lesson, "Understanding the C... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Developing a Financial Investment Portfolio
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Students are given brief descriptions of three individuals. They act as financial advisors and develop a financial investment portfolio for each client using internet references as they analyze various saving options. The inte... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Economic Sectors and International Development
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Using poverty rate as a measure of development, students select countries five at a time to compare how resources are allocated to three economic sectors (agriculture, industrial, service). After making comparisons, students ... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
What Do You Get for Your $1,818,600,000,000?
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Using MS Excel and data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis web site on federal government spending, students will compare the amounts spent on various sectors and programs over a range of years. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Focus on Economic Data: Gross Domestic Product - May 2004
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Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the first quarter (January through March) of 2004 increased at an annual rate of 4.4 percent. This is a .2 percent increase over the initial announcement one month ago. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Cost/Benefit Analysis:Three Gorges Dam
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This lesson will allow students to evaluate the costs/benefits of the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River in China. The purpose of this lesson is to encourage students to look at a complex issue from differing viewpo... more »
Grades: 6-8 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
U.S. farmers and the Cuban embargo
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This lesson explores trade barriers in general and why some U.S. farmers want one specific trade barrier, the Cuban embargo, completely eliminated. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Marketplace: Corporate Leap Frog
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This lesson will focus on competition among sellers and the factors that can make one company more successful than another in the same market. Competition between K-Mart, Wal-Mart, and Target will be examined to see what kinds of ... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Focus on Economic Data: The Inflation Rate - May 14, 2004
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Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Lowell Workers and Producers Respond to Incentives
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In this lesson students learn about supply and demand and how changes in supply affect price and quantity of goods supplied. In part 1, the students are presented with a hypothetical story about a high school's policy on concessio... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Focus on Economic Data: The Unemployment Rate - May 7, 2004
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Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Focus on Economic Data: The Federal Reserve System and Monetary Policy - May 4, 2004
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Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice
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In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a variety of alternatives from which to choose. They learn about the importance of price information in ... more »
Grades: 3-5, 6-8 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Focus on Economic Data: Gross Domestic Product - April 29, 2004
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Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson

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