Students explore the concept of managing money. In this managing money lesson, students discuss how to write checks and keep an accurate check registry. Students discuss the importance and uses of debit cards and deposit forms.

Pupils examine how weights and measures can be used to assess value, that traders must be wary of fraudulent practices, and appreciate the Akan weights as works of art.

This lesson has students explore differences in regional housing costs, determine the percentage of gross income spent on housing, assess the impact of housing costs on a relocation decision and recognize wages and housing costs are prices.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the percentage of a total price in order to determine an amount of sales tax.

Offers a summary of when government intervention and market-determined prices are necessary to stabilize the economy. Includes an interactive quiz at the end.

In this activity, students will deal with the Black -Scholes formula, that can be used to determine the fair value of a call option. A call option gives its holder the right to purchase an asset at a predetermined price and time....

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find percentages of a total price in order to determine a discount.

Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to manufacture the Model T revolutionized industrial manufacturing. This 3-part learning unit provides students with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics perspective....

Students will learn how to determine 'price per unit' to help make decisions when comparing products.

In this lesson summary review, remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to the long-run self-adjustment mechanism. The long-run self-adjustment mechanism is one process that can bring the economy back to "normal" after a...

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. In this lesson plan, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies...

In this activity, students perform breakeven analysis using the cost and revenue of an enterprise. They will determine the relationship between fixed and variable costs, profits, pricing policy, and the volume of output.

In this interactive economics lab, students help Albert Moose determine how to price his product, music synthesizers, based on costs and revenue. Students create supply curves to help in the decision process.

Learn how to calculate sale price when combining two "percent-off" discounts in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students develop and share a variety of strategies, including modeling with a 10 x 10 grid to...

In this instructional activity summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium. Topics include how to model a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium graphically as well as the...