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This video teaches the concept of Roles of Government. Some roles of government include protecting the environment, helping the poor and providing national defense.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Supply. Supply refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good or service that firms are willing to produce.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments. The balance of trade is calculated by subtracting imports from exports. The balance of payments includes payments related to exports and imports of goods...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Barriers to Trade. Barriers to trade are government rules that block or inhibit international trade between countries.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Benefits of Trade and Comparative Advantage. Comparative advantage is the principle which holds that world output is higher if every country produces and trades the good in which it has a compara...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Economic Development. Economic development is a sustained increase in the standard of living of a country's population.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Foreign Currency Markets and Exchange Rates. The foreign currency market is where one currency is exchanged for another. An exchange rate is the actual rate of conversion between two currencies.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Compound Interest. When you reinvest past earnings, then in the future you will earn interest not only on the original investment, but also on the past accumulated returns; this is called compound...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Credit. Credit refers to the ability to borrow money. Some forms of credit commonly used by consumers are car loans, home mortgage loans and credit cards.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Financial Markets. Financial markets are those markets that exist for buying and selling financial assets. The most important financial assets for individual investors are bonds, stocks and mutual...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Human Capital. Human capital refers to the combination of a person's education, knowledge, experience, health, habits, training and talent.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Insurance. The purchase of insurance involves paying an amount called a premium at regular intervals, with the understanding that if negative events occur, the insurance company will pay certain c...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Money Management and Budgeting. Budgeting refers to drawing up a plan for how available funds will be spent. Budgeting is sometimes called money management, since it involves clarifying decisions...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Risk and Return. Risk describes a situation in which the outcome is uncertain and a range of results, potentially both good and bad, is possible. The return of an investment is calculated as the ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Saving and Investing. Broadly speaking, an individual has only two choices about what to do with (after-tax) income: spending on current consumption or saving for the future.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman interviews inventor Ray Kurzweil, who predicts that advancing technology will result in augmented brains, memories recorded on "mind files" and a greatly increased life span.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool - Making Sen$e with Solman
Paul Solman interviews inventor Ray Kurzweil, who predicts that advancing technology will result in augmented brains, memories recorded on "mind files" and a greatly increased life span.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This is a basic lesson of scarcity and resources that can be used for elementary students or students with special needs. Scarcity - is a condition that exists because human wants exceed the capacity of available resources to sat...
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
To explore the concept that people invest in themselves through education, the students work in two groups and participate in a mathematics game. Both groups are assigned mathematics problems to solve. One group is told about a sp...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 1: Why Save? from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a New Generation publication. Following an introduction that defines saving, the students discuss the idea of "paying you...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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