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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
Using the study of the Lewis and Clark expedition students will define the term barter and give examples of bartering.
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The unemployment rate for the month of August was 6.1 percent, a slight decrease from the 6.2 percent in July. Total employment fell by 93,000 in August. The fall in employment has received the most attention in the news.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor today reported revised productivity data--as measured by output per hour of all persons--for the second quarter of 2003. The seasonally-adjusted annual rate of product...
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Grades: 9-12
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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 3.1 percent. This is the second release of the data for the second quarter and is an increase that is higher t...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students sing the familiar tune, ""Old MacDonald Had a Farm."" They identify goods on the farm and suggest services that Farmer MacDonald might have provided or wanted. Acting as farmers, they write two new verses for their farm...
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students make construction paper cutouts of businesses and structures and create a community map bulletin board. Students analyze the goods and services available in their community to determine that some are privately produced a...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students participate in three rounds of a simulation in which they are merchants who must keep written records on their trades. In Round 1 they do not have some required skills or knowledge and are unable to produ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students participate in a role play as producers of two goods, allowing students to experience scarcity. They make choices about using their scarce resource to produce both or one of two goods. Then they construc...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate that the production of most goods can be broken down into a number of specific tasks (division of labor), with each of these tasks assigned to specific workers (specialization.)
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
George Washington Carver, a great scientist, changed the economy of the South with his agricultural knowledge. This lesson will investigate how the lowly peanut kept the cotton farmers from losing everything.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
We save money to get things we can’t afford to buy now. Saving for the future requires patience but it can be worth it when we get what we want the most. Successful savings depends on three elements which are presented to st...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Did you ride to school on a road today? Yesterday did you skate in a public park? Maybe Mom or Dad traveled home from one of your ball games on their bicycles under a string of street lights? How did the road, the park or the...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will find out what savings are and will be introduced to U.S. Savings Bonds.
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Grades: 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 June 2003 was 0.2 percent (an increase of two-tenths of one percent). The rate of increase in the consumer price index over the past twel...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson will take students through the series of tax acts that were enacted by the British government and disputed by the original 13 colonies of America prior to the American Revolution. Students will discuss the concept ...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Money doesn’t grow on trees. This lesson introduces students to four ways people get money—they find it, win it, receive it as a gift or earn it. Finding, winning and receiving money often depend on chance and luck. Mo...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
You know that five dollars you got for your birthday? There are so many things you can spend it on, aren’t there? A toy boat to sail on the pond, a doll to play with or a jump rope. A lot of stores sell the very same th...
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Upon completion of this lesson students will: identify examples of productive resources; categorize productive resources as human resources, capital resources, and natural resources; explain that an entrepreneur is a special t...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The unemployment rate fell from 6.4 percent in June to 6.2 percent in July. Slightly over 9 million individuals were unemployed.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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