Mergers within industries such as banking, telecommunications, and airlines have created a stir among consumers who charge that economic freedom and efficiency are being sacrificed in favor of corporate profits. In this lesson, students...

Students will define and identify human resources and capital resources workers use in their jobs.

This website focuses on productive resources which are divided into three categories, natural, human, and capital.

This lesson will show young scholars the importance of keeping track of their savings.

Video [3:28] and quiz on the concept of buying on credit.

This life lesson will prepare young scholars for the world of credit. "In this lesson, you will analyze the creditworthiness of people who want to borrow. You will also learn how to identify ways to establish your creditworthiness."

This lesson plan introduces the role and importance of the 3 C's - capacity, character, and collateral - to being granted credit. An online story about a girl who fails to return soccer shin guards borrowed from a friend is used to spark...

Check out this website to learn more about the economy, specialization, and the reasons assembly lines are used.

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.)

This activity will help middle schoolers identify how to make good decisions which will help them financially in the future. Students will identify how to take their own wants and work them into a form of a personal budget. Middle...

How do banks calculate the amount of interest paid on a loan? In this lesson, students will view a Livescribe Pencast to learn how to find the dollar amount in interest that is due at maturity. This lesson uses different time periods...

This lesson explores trade barriers in general and why some U.S. farmers want one specific trade barrier, the Cuban embargo, completely eliminated.

As in the first ', You Can BANK on This, you will learn that banking should not be confusing - it should be INTERESTING! Lesson Two will continue learning with Zing, but this time we will learn all about budgeting - and budgeting means...

This lesson deals with credit, and wraps up this unit on finance.

Wind energy is becoming a viable alternative to more traditional forms of energy generation. In this lesson, students will determine the feasibility of wind generation in different areas of the United States. Finally, students will...

Video [3:04] describing the concept of human capital as a combination of a person's education, knowledge, experience, health, habits, training and talent.

Through this economics lesson you will learn about widget production. One of the tasks is to see how productivity can help solve problems.

This is a lesson that deals with scarcity during WWII. Natural, human, and capital resources are discussed.

In this lesson, learners will learn about the gains from trade. Students will participate in a trading game that will demonstrate that trade can make everyone better off.

The activity investigates compound interest, principal, and interest. Students can calculate different savings over time by inputting the monthly savings, starting age, and interest rate. The learning tool includes a graph that shows the...

Students can use this site online in conjuction with the teacher's lesson plan, "Trade to the Tailor."

In this lesson, you will be taking on the role of an investigative reporter to solve the Amazing Farmer Mystery. The goal will be to use seven clues provided throughout the lesson in order to figure out how so few farmers can produce...

In this lesson, students analyze the concepts of economic freedom and political freedom, identify ways to measure them and explore the relation between measures of well-being and between measures of freedom.

Students research the economic systems of a communist country and a third-world country and compare them to the US, guided by questions and using information from the CIA World Factbook website.