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Worksheet
Federal Reserve Bank

Prices: The Marketplace’s Communication System

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the dual role of prices as signals and incentives, and discover how prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the United States economy.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gas Prices Keep Rising

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discuss rising gas prices, then read a news article about how the increase in fuel cost may affect other prices. In this economics and current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Drives the Stock Prices?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars see that earnings drive stock prices. More importantly, students look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business.
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Worksheet
Federal Reserve Bank

Higher Gasoline Prices: Temporary or Time to Buy a Hybrid?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Gasoline prices garner a lot of attention in the United States. What can explain a temporary decline in gasoline consumption, and how do gasoline prices spur innovation in the energy and automotive industries?
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Rising Prices

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What will that cost in the future? The scenario provides pupils with a growth as a Consumer Price Index. Learners create functions for a given item to determine future prices and graph them. Class members then compare their functions to...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Prices Involving Discounts: Save Money with Coupons!

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Nine questions make up an interactive that challenges scholars to identify new prices after discounts. Question types include fill in the blank and multiple choice. A fully-functional tool assists participants in solving word problems....
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Council for Economic Education

What's the Big Deal about Spices?

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Today's gourmands don't consider spices to be the equivalent of silver and gold. During the middle ages, however, these commodities were precious. People back then used spices in religious ceremonies, to cure rotten food, and as a show...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Prices Involving Sales Tax: Proper Tipping

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A five-question interactive challenges mathematicians to find a correct tip and total amount using percents five, 12, and 18. A tool with moveable pieces assists participants in locating answers. Types of questions include...
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Balanced Assessment

Monitor Pricing

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Out with the old and in with the new. Learners use a set of prices of computer monitors from 1994 to make a prediction. They then use one current price and what they know about the old prices to make a more recent prediction. Their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pumped Up Gas Prices

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students calculate gas prices. In this transportation lesson, students tally the mileage and gas costs of their car for one months. They figure out how much was spent on gas and create a graph showing average gas prices over time. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Globalization: Prescription Drug Prices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers take a closer look at prescription drug prices in the United States and around the world. In this global issues lesson, students investigate health care costs, consider the impact of global prescription agreements, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Charting Historical Gas Prices

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the historical and current prices of a gallon of gasoline. Using an online tool, they calculate the inflation-adjusted cost of gasoline over the years, and create a graph to demonstrate the actual cost vs. the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pricing Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the principles companies use to price their problems. They discover the difference between cost based and market based pricing. They identify other factors that go into pricing decisions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Current Events and Prices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read a recent article about the likelihood of a decrease or increase in prices of a specific consumer good. Using the Internet, they examine current events and make predictions about their effect on the economy. They write...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Globalization101.org Lesson Plan on Prescription Drug Prices

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the issue of prescription drug prices in the United States. They research the issue and participate in a mock US Senate hearing on the subject.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pumped Up Gas Prices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the concepts of differing gas prices and how they are set in different geographical areas. They conduct research about the economic concepts of supply and demand and predict the outcomes upon the prices of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Problem-Solving Application: Comparing Prices

For Students 4th - 5th
In this problem solving worksheet, learners solve 3 problems pertaining to comparing prices in a museum gift shop. Students find the most economical way to buy specified items..
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Why Do Gasoline Prices React to Things That Have Not Happened?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate how the price of gas is determined.  In this economics lesson, students analyze supply and demand and seasonal demand, create tables and graphs and reflect on consumer expectations.  
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Drives the Stock Prices?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students discover that earnings drive stock prices. They look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business. They also use price-to-earnings ratio as one of the tools in choosing stocks for the Global Stock Game.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Traveling in Style

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners choose a travel destination in another culture, create a list of items needed, obtain prices, and research the climate and traditional clothing in the culture. They create an imaginary travel budgets--with which they calculate...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shopping-Unit Pricing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Comparing unit prices of food products is a skill that learners will use for the rest of their lives. Here is a simple plan that provides practice calculating the unit price for various grocery store products. Use two jars with differing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson 6 How Does News Influence Stock Prices?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students see that economic news and business events can change the price of a stock. They see that the unexpected events that benefit or harm the company, in turn, moves the company's stock price up or down.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Monopoly Pricing

For Students 11th - 12th
In this Monopoly Pricing worksheet, students analyze a graph to answer eleven questions that ask them to solve problems and make predictions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Market Prices

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders understand that prices change. For this business, price and labor lesson, 2nd graders define the words market and price. Students read Arthur's Funny Money and answer questions related to earning and spending money....

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