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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.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson introduces the role and importance of the 3 C’s -- capacity, character, and collateral – to being granted credit. An online story about a girl who fails to return soccer shin guards borrowed from a friend i...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students explore meat consumption statistics, an indicator of a nation's relative prosperity and standard of living. They do a survey of a family's meat consumption and compare their results to statistics from Colonial and...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The U.S. international trade deficit in goods and services slightly increased to $40.3 billion in July from a revised $40 billion in June. Exports increased by $1.7 billion and imports increased by a slightly larger number, $2.0 b...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The consumer price index (CPI) during the month of October 2003 did not change. The rate of increase in the consumer price index over the past twelve months has been 2.0 percent. In October, the core consumer price index, which ex...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In ancient Hawaii, chiefs managed the economy by creating a land division system, the Ahupua'a, which divided the islands into pie slice shapes. Each Ahupua'a covered the three main regions of the islands: the mountains, the ...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The unemployment rate for the month of October was 6.0 percent, a slight decrease from the 6.1 percent in September. Total employment rose by 126,000 in October. The increase in employment in September was revised upward to 125,00...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
When choosing a place to put their money, people consider how safe their money will be, how easy it is to access, and whether it will earn more money. Students explore how well different savings places achieve these objectives. St...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The second of a two-part unit on income-earning endeavors, this lesson has students choose a job or business to engage in during non-school hours. They then devise a strategy of whom to target and how to begin pursuit of their cho...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students learn that Community Helpers provide a service for their neighborhood.
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Learners are given advice on how they can earn extra money by becoming an entrepreneur. After investigating several web pages that offer examples of what other people their age have done to earn money, students identify three mone...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the third quarter (July through September) of 2003 increased at an annual rate of 7.2 percent.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Ancient Hawaii was ruled by chiefs, who were responsible for the well-being of their people and for managing the islands' resources. The chiefs divided the islands into land districts shaped like pie slices called Ahupua'a (ah-who...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 1 percent.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The unemployment rate for the month of September was 6.1 percent equal to the 6.1 percent unemployment in August. Total employment rose by 57,000 in September.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will learn that a job is work people do to earn a living in the world today.Students will learn the difference between jobs that provide a service and jobs that provide a good.
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the second quarter (April through June) of 2003 increased at an annual rate of 3.3 percent. This is the third release of the data for the second quarter and is an increase that is higher th...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students will calculate savings for different products when using coupons. They will also decide what factors will influence the choices they make when choosing products.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The seasonally adjusted rate of change in the consumer price index (CPI) during the month of August 2003 was 0.3 percent (an increase of four-tenths of one percent). The rate of increase in the consumer price index over the past t...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The Federal Reserve announced today that there would be no change in monetary policy.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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