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The seasonally adjusted rate of change in the consumer price index during the month of August 2002 was 0.3 percent (an increase of three-tenths of one percent). The rate of increase in the consumer price index over the past twelve...
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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 August was 5.7 percent, a decrease of .2 percent from July. The number of individuals employed increased by 39,000 this month.
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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 2002. 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
Governments and other financial organizations are constantly measuring trends in the economy to try to predict what will happen next. The ability to successfully economic trends has a profound effect on whether or not a busine...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson examines some of the incentive programs being offered to keep students in school
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Everyone has at one time or another opened a lemonade or Kool-Aid Stand. What a great place to begin an economics lesson. Students can taste test three brands of lemonade and compare prices with taste – is the most expen...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students learn about the successful Adopt-a-Highway program and how it can save governments and taxpayers money.
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students learn about the purpose of the reserve requirement, how money is "created" in the economy through fractional reserves, and how the Federal Reserve uses the reserve requirement and loans to correct economic ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
There are many ways in which people are rewarded or penalized for doing, or not doing, their work. These are known as “incentives.”
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Marketplace, a daily economics news program heard on National Public Radio, featured a story on January 8, 2002, titled "Microsoft Invades the Kitchen." In this segment, reporter Aaron Schachter describes consumers' ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will research the cost of making the penny and the use of the penny. They will come up with reasons why the penny should or should not continue to be made and used.
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
We make choices to use our natural resources. This lesson lets the students make choices that protect the wildlife of Australia from poachers.
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recently opened a $300 million dollar center for the performing arts, the Kimmel Center. This lesson was developed for a special teacher workshop to incorporate economics and the arts to ...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
During the Gold Rush, people paid exorbitant prices for ordinary objects. Why? Because of the laws of supply and demand, that's why! In the lesson, students will see how these laws fit into this great historical time.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students use the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to track unemployment rates for their community, and after researching information about the industrial makeup of their community, explain whether their local unemployment ra...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students examine tradeoffs and profit- maximization decisions in the case study of Kaiser Aluminum, which decided to shut down aluminum production in favor of reselling electricity.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will describe the purpose of a price index, and how it is calculated. Then students will describe the weaknesses of the CPI, and interpret CPI data as a measure of economic health. Finally, students will identify who ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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