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Handout
ProCon

Video Games and Violence

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Is screen time dangerous time? Scholars take a close look at the facts surrounding video games and violence. Pros give evidence connecting violence to video games while cons suggest there is no relationship.
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2001 AP® English Language and Composition Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Do pictures really last longer? A prompt from the 2001 AP® English Language and Composition Free-Response Questions asks scholars to analyze the opinion that photography actually limits people when it comes to understanding the world....
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2004 AP® Macroeconomics Free-Response Questions Form B

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A problem set explores how an international crisis could affect the economic health of Canada using authentic materials from College Board. Other questions ask learners to create and evaluate supply and demand curves and examine factors...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2015 AP® Macroeconomics Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Currency exchange is a big factor in governments making economic decisions. Scholars consider various scenarios to evaluate how factors such as interest rates and private investments would affect a nation's economy using a practice test...
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Activity
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Council for Economic Education

Athens and Olive Oil

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Athens had olive oil—and lots of it! However, it needed wheat from the Egyptians. Understanding how societies get what they need through advantage and trade can be complicated. A scripted role-play exercise and in-class production...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Theory of Comparative Advantage

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students take a closer look at comparative advantage. For this economics lesson, students discover details about opportunity cost, comparative advantage, and absolute advantage. Students participate in a simulation that requires them to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Inside the Vault-Entrepreneurship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore entrepreneurship. In this economic study lesson, students take a pretest on attitudes, review characteristics that make up an entrepreneur, review a list of famous entrepreneurs, and create a 5 minute oral presentation...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The International Way of Thinking

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this International Way of Thinking worksheet, students write answers to questions about basic economic concepts as well as using a chart about production.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Hatfields and the McCoys

For Students 10th - 12th
In this Hatfields and McCoys activity, students read a short passage and then answer questions and solve problems based on the reading.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Trade -- Lesson Plan on the Theory of Comparative Advantage

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the theory of comparative advantage. They read an article about globalization and trading to answer questions promoted by the teacher. They develop their own examples of comparative advantage.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan on the Theory of Comparative Advantage

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice using new vocabulary related to economics. They discover how to calculate comparative and absolute advantage. They also read different articles about the topic.