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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Globalization and the Economic Crisis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One-day lesson provides students an opportunity to explore a series of political cartoons and consider the relationship between globalization and the economic crisis. Note: Video content may not load in archived version.
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Other

International Monetary Fund: Annual Report of the Executive Board

For Students 9th - 10th
Annual reports of the IMF's activities and financial position going back to 1996. Can be downloaded and available in a variety of languages.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World: Problems

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides five problems to solve based on the information presented in Ch. 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 15: How the Foreign Exchange Market Works

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Define foreign exchange market; Describe different types of investments like foreign direct investments, portfolio investments, and hedging; Explain how the appreciating...
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Choice Is Us: Monopolies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan introduces the concept of monopoly. It calls upon middle schoolers to consider how monopoly power might affect the quality and price of goods and services offered to consumers. In light of what they learn about the...
Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Bananas

For Teachers 5th
A learning module on the global banana industry that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include where bananas are grown, ways...
Handout
Central Intelligence Agency

Cia: World Factbook: Economy Overview: Country Comparison to the World

For Students 9th - 10th
The CIA provides an excellent resource for every country of the world that describes its economy in a nutshell. Important aspects include the type of economy, level of development, unique areas of specialization, major economic events...
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Nothing to Buy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This site is a printable lesson that compares the command economy of Soviet Russia with the market economy of present day Russia. Lesson provides tables with data comparing prices within the two systems. Discussion questions are also...
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Other

World Economic Forum: What the World's Waste Does to People in Poorer Countries

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the serious global waste crisis, the problem of plastic waste, the issue of wealthy countries exporting their trash to less-developed ones, informal waste management practices, and electronic waste dumps. The article ends with...
Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Trends Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive quiz from NOVA, take the Environmental Challenge and test your knowledge of human impact on the world's natural resources and climate.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Colonies: Motivations and Realities

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary sources to explore the motivations and realities behind life in the American colonies.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: How Economies Can Be Organized: An Overview of Economic Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to contrast traditional economies, command economies, and market economies; explain gross domestic product (GDP); and assess the importance and effects of globalization.
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Is Globalization a Dirty Word?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Is globalization a dirty word? Well not according to a recent study conducted by the World Bank. The report, entitled Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy, makes the case for globalization as a method...
Lesson Plan
American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: The New Frontier in Brazil: People and Environment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lesson plan on the environmental aspects of economic development. Focusing on Brazil, the lesson takes students through the pros and cons associated with development and how multiple players are involved.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Freelance Work

For Students 9th - 10th
A website with links to tutorials on freelance work and why it is becoming more and more popular. Topics include What is the Gig Economy, The Pros and Cons of Freelance Work, What is a Temp Job?, and What is a Temp Agency?
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The High Cost of Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet an activist who works to help the struggling farmers of rural India, in this video from Wide Angle. [2:30]
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Smithsonian Institution

Freer | Sackler Galleries: Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires

For Students 9th - 10th
Two thousand years before today's "global economy," an exchange network linked the continent of Asia via the Silk Route. Between the first and eighth centuries of the common era, the empires and states of Asia often came into conflict as...
Article
Other

Global Policy Forums: Globalization

For Students 9th - 10th
This site considers not only the Globalization of the Economy but also the Globalization of Politics, of Culture and of Law. The globalized world sweeps away regulation and undermines local and national politics, just as the...
eBook
Other

Usa: Chapter 10: Foreign Trade and Global Economic Policies

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 10 overview traces the history of U.S. foreign trade and global economic movement from a protectionist to more liberalized trade policies.
Unit Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe: "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke": Student Web Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will work online using the Coca Cola Company Web site to learn about global economics. They will find the regions where Coca-Cola Company operations take place, and what economic conditions have a negative impact on sales. They...
Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World: Key Terms

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of key terms and definitions used in Ch. 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World: Key Concepts & Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
This section provides a summary of the key concepts discusses in Ch. 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
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Other

International Monetary Fund: Trading Around the World

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation and role-playing activity based on a fast-paced game that challenges the player to buy low and sell high. The simulation is a trading model that matches the player with computerized traders from around the world.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World:critical Thinking Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides study questions that require critical thinking skills; these cover the content of Chapter 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.