This organization offers programs for youth to help them understand about business and how to start one. It also offers in-school presentations. They have chapters all across Canada.

Backed by Warren Buffett, "the world's most famous investor," the Secret Millionaires Club teaches children about saving and investing money, about how businesses and credit cards work, and about the personal qualities that support...

This wonderful website, Freedom, a History of US, based on the series by Joy Hakim, presents the tenth webisode, Yearning to be Breathe Free. Through text, photographs, and audio segments you can get a good picture of the state of...

Here is a gold mine of information about advertising from 1867 to 1918 in the western part of the United States, particularly the Pacific Northwest. This collection of 450 ads shows social, cultural, and economic trends during this time...

This site is a short lesson on business cycles, aggregate demand, and aggregate supply. It has some good explanations of the terms.

This article by James Gleick is a discussion of Microsoft and Capitalism. It is an example of economic theory in an applied setting. It should increase the reader's understanding of capitalism in the business world. It also includes...

Depressions are sustained troughs in the business cycle characterized by declines in output, employment, income, and trade. While they date from the earliest years of American history, little is known about them from the Colonial Era....

Players use business strategy to see how much money they can earn by making and selling lemonade.

This article from the American Anthropological Association suggests that with our advancement in communication technology, culture is a topic of concern. People are virtually connecting from all over the world through the internet and...

This resource presents the complete text of the famous economic work in which Veblen used economic analytical techniques to examine trusts and how they would lead to bigger and bigger corporations. The book was published in 1904.

Interesting article follows the return of "hard" news to the 3 evening newscasts from June to October 2001. Includes infographics and source material.

Starting in 1920 the United States had three presidents who followed conservative policies. Read about their policies, and determine whether they made the U.S. a more economically sound country. [pdf]

Collection of six sections with primary resource material on the prosperity achieved during the 1920s explores consumerism, labor, and business. Includes notes, discussion questions and links to supplemental sources.

"Comprised of leaders in business, agriculture, government, and education from around the State," the site fosters economic education. Major emphasis here is on awards programs and their winners.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides a matching activity and Activote questions to examine saving and investing.

This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.

This website from BananaLink.org provides information about the international trade in bananas. This trade raises many ethical issues in business and economic activity, and the site is a useful source of case study material.

The preeminent national organization that offers students educational experiences in business and economics, Junior Achievement, has a great list of web resources for students and educators. Explore career preparation, college...

Concise overview of the economy of Ecuador including natural resources, important cities, and economic progress.

Concise overview of the economy of Peru including natural resources, important cities, and economic progress.

Learners will learn about a variety of businesses and the service they provide to a community. They will build a town selecting seven business they feel would be the most important to have in order to live in this community.

Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people's lives. For this lesson, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies...

In this instructional activity summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to automatic stabilizers, including the different kinds of automatic stabilizers and why fiscal policy is subject to lags. This...

Frankfurter Allgemeine is a daily newspaper, published in Frankfurt, Germany. Its content includes top national and international news, politics, business and finance, sports, weather, culture, editorials, and more. News is also...