In this activity, students identify the organizational text structure used in passages that explain different forms of economic systems, and how the economic system of the United States works.

The students will recognize that in order to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, most nations create currency for use as money. They will examine the characteristics of money by comparing and contrasting examples of U.S. and...

Many young scholars in high school or in college have part time jobs and learn the concept of gross pay and net pay. Their employers take out taxes at the federal and state level. This lesson takes a common situation and helps students...

This learning module examines how money travels around the world between more developed and less developed nations, and the various forms it takes. Includes slideshows, student tasks, videos, maps, charts, and case studies, including one...

"Germany has 500+ golf clubs with some 300,000+ members which may come as a surprise to some. The game enjoys increasing popularity, attracts respectable sponsorship money and boastsone of the the finest European golfers ever, in the...

Money and finance has played a role in fiction since Chaucer's Reeve's Tale. This interesting page points out some of the works in which money and/or finance plays a pivotal role.