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Development of an economic system for a Civil War prison camp; Allocation of scarce resources. Learn about scarcity, economic wants, command economic systems, market economic systems, and markets and price.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Analysis of the costs and benefits of educational choices. Learn about economic choice, opportunity cost, and incentives.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Examination of the case for privatizing a public school. Learn about public goods, private goods, costs, incentives, and economic efficiency.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
After reading about a problem, students identify alternative solutions, trade-offs made in choosing each alternative, and the opportunity cost of selecting each option.. Students describe trade-offs and create a graphic.
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Class discussion and small group task identifying the six characteristics of a market economy and the provisions in the constitution that support a market economy.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Class discussion and small group task identifying six economics functions of government and examples of these functions using current events.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
After discussing the concept of comparative advantage, students in small groups engage in a simulation on the economic costs and benefits of trade.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students learn about various types of trade restrictions and their effects by applying a model to determine who will benefit and who will be hurt by a tariff.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students calculate the US GDP and various examples from South America. Using this information, they make inferences about per-capita income.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students will explore the fundamentals of stock ownership. They discuss how stock owners share the risks and rewards of purchasing stocks.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students learn how to determine the costs and benefits of using credit cards and identify ways and criteria to establish and obtain credit.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students examine the difference between fixed and variable costs, make predictions and recommend actions for a hypothetical business.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students investigate the impact of tariffs on businesses and consumers during the 1880s by looking at a political cartoon, solving a short math problem, and comparing protectionism between time periods.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students read short histories of Prohibition and MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and work in small groups to evaluate the consequences of these policies on consumers' behavior.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Ten lessons focusing on the characteristics of entreprenuers in the economy. Several lessons deal with Nebraska entreprenuers.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Selected lesson from a curriculum guide focusing on success stories of Nebraska entreprenuers.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Selected lesson from a curriculum guide focusing on Nebraska entreprenuers encouraging students to find entrepreneurs in their hometowns.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
A resource guide and ten lessons for teachers focusing on the role of international trade in state development in Nebraska.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students will define scarcity as the condition that exists when wants exceed resources available, define and give examples of capital and natural resources, identify scarce resources in countries studies, and identify choices soci...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students will learn about exchange rates and international trade. They will match selected foreign currencies to their country of origin, discuss exchange rates in trade, compute foreign exchange transactions, and describe the im...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
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