Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be an Ad Detective
Every day, young scholars are bombarded by advertising. They cannot escape it. But marketers realize that many ypung people are becoming very good at tuning ads out. Businesses thus are becoming more creative in their communication with...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Believe It or Not?
This lesson reveals to students how advertisers use words and images to make goods and services look their best. To protect consumers and make sure that competition among sellers is fair in the marketplace, the federal government...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Save the Moonflowers
Margaret Mee (1909-1988) was a botanical artist who often traveled up the Amazon River alone in search of rare flowers to collect and paint. Even at the age of 79, she planned to return to the Amazon for another excursion. On...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Bringing the Market to the Farm
This printable lesson discusses producers and consumers from an agricultural perspective. It focuses on choices that the consumer has with regard to purchasing agricultural goods (e.g. fruits and vegetables). As an example, it uses...
Pearson
Pearson Education: Practice Reading Selection: Grade 7
This resource presents two reading selections followed by extended response and multiple choice comprehension questions. Students read the fiction selection "A Letter from New York" by Jean Lawler and answer eight questions covering...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Educator Page)
This lesson ask students to calculate the percentage change in military strength over the last two decades, hypothesize economic (and non-economic) explanations for these changes, test hypothetical explanations by reading an economic...
Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: National Brands Versus Private Labels and Generics
This article compares national brands to generic brands, with respect to prices, customer satisfaction, and product differentiation.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Great Gatsby: The Roaring Twenties
This lesson focuses on the Roaring Twenties, an era of great economic growth, widespread prosperity, and new technologies. This is era featured in The Great Gatsby; it began at the end of WWI and ended with the Stock Market crash in...
Other
Copper Development Association
This organization supports the promotion and expansion of the global copper industry through its efforts in developing markets, engineering, and providing information. Also provides educational resources.
Practical Action
Practical Action: Squashed Tomato Challenge
Challenge students to take on a real-life problem affecting people in Nepal. Many farmers living on the mountainside there grow fruit and vegetables, including tomatoes. To earn a living, they need to sell these at the local market. The...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Virtual Economics Web Companion
The Virtual Economics Web Companion for K-12 economics and social studies teachers was created by the National Council on Economic Education. A wide variety of educational materials and lesson plans can be accessed through this site....
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 8: La Comida
In this eighth unit of an introductory Spanish course, students learn about foods eaten in Spanish-speaking countries, traditions and eating habits, what's on a menu, they recite a tongue twister, gather and present information about a...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Banks, Bankers, Banking
This lesson is a simulation of opening a bank. Students are assigned various roles to play within the banking business. Students learn about the role banks play in a market economy.
Practical Action
Practical Action: Plastics Challenge
This is a challenge for students to develop solutions to the problems caused by plastic waste globally. They will learn about how plastic waste impacts people around the world, the different types of plastic, how they are each used, how...
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Supply & Demand
Highlights basic concepts such as the law of supply and demand, changes in demand and supply versus changes in the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied, the determinants of demand and supply, and market equilibrium.
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Chair the Fed: A Monetary Policy Game
The resource consists of a tutorial and learning game about monetary policy. Some topics investigated are reserve requirements, open market operations, discount rate, and tight monetary policy.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: A Day in the Life of the Fomc
Learn about the Federal Open Market Committee and the nation's monetary policymakers.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Maximum Employment
Highlights the goal of maximum employment and features labor market measures and terminology.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Focus on Economic Data
This lesson plan focuses on the May 1, 2013, press release by the Federal Reserve System's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on the current Federal Reserve monetary policy actions and goals, and specifically, the federal fund's rate...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Physicians and Surgeons
Occupational outlook for all doctors that details expected job market in future, salary, working conditions, etc.
Pearson
Pearson Education: Practice Reading Section
This resource provides short reading selections that encourage reading comprehension. Students are challenged with questions about the selection to test their understanding.
Pearson
Pearson Education: Reading Practice: Section 8
With this resource, students read two texts, "Ready for Anything" by Jean Lawler and "Jane Goodall" from What a Life by Milada Broukal, and answer the reading comprehension questions that follow. Students can print their answers for...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Perfect House
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of Multi-Attribute Compositional Models, in which market experts determine what features are most in demand for a given product. The lesson is...
Employment Spot
Employment Spot: Back to School
Perhaps it's time to consider further education or training. In today's job market, the competition is fierce. Applicants are more qualified and better educated than their counterparts of only a few years ago. Many times, the only way to...