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Selected lesson from a curriculum guide focusing on Nebraska entreprenuers encouraging students to find entrepreneurs in their hometowns.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson you will be taking on the role of an an investigative reporter to solve the Amazing Farmer Mystery. The goal will be to use seven clues provided throughout the lesson in order to figure out how so few farmers ca...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Free Ride helps students identify goods and services provided by the government and evaluate the cost of government provided goods and services.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Contrary to US methods of distribution (namely prices), the Soviet Union used different methods of distribution of its goods during the reign of Communism. This lesson will explore the benefits and consequences of each of tho...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students compare the Soviet-era marketplace with present-day Russian marketplace.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will define scarcity as the condition that exists when wants exceed resources available, define and give examples of capital and natural resources, identify scarce resources in countries studies, and identify choices soci...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
Students will participate in an activity to explore how workers, both today and in colonial
times, worked within their societies to produce specialized goods and services and became
interdependent. Lesson 11 from Adventures in ...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: EconFun |
Type: lesson
Fairy tales have always been used to give lessons about life. The story of Jack and the Bean Stalk is a good lesson about the importance of knowing about money and banks. The story of Jack asks the question, "What is mon...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will learn the difference between inventors and entrepreneurs. From talking with adults they will learn some of the benefits inventors and entrepreneurs have provided for society in the last 40 years.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will review the history of trade before money and will investigate the history of money. Students will locate information about the first coin authorized by the United States and will learn about the penny.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson begins with students visiting a web site that gives them practice in counting money. The second site goes one step further in that students are given opportunities to make change for make-believe purchases.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In a barter system, people have to trade goods and services for other goods and services. In an economy that produces millions of goods and services, barter is very difficult. Think of all the stuff (goods and services) you h...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson students are introduced to several businesses from the past. They see that, while the names for these businesses are different, many of the elements of that job are seen in occupations today. The web site, &q...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Through the use of folk tales, history, and the students' own experiences, students will recognize the inter-relatedness of goods, services, money. They will locate information about barter as a means of trade, use folk tale...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson illustrates the differences between inventions and innovations. It discusses what entrepreneurs are and their role with inventions and innovations.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson students working in cooperative groups will: 1.Discuss food items they consume for breakfast. 2.Investigate elements of foreign culture, particularly food. 3.Use map skills to locate selected foreign nations....
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
All resources are limited. It is this simple fact--scarcity--that forces us to make decisions. When we do make a choice, we pass up some other opportunity. Opportunity cost is defined as the next best alternative not chosen, ...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Elijah McCoy was an African-American inventor who successfully designed an automatic oil cup that may have inspired the popular phrase, ""the real McCoy."" Learn about increasing productivity and patents.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: EcEdWeb |
Type: Lesson
During December 1997, The Washington Post published an article about the debut of the Princess Beanie Baby. A Beanie Baby retailer, interviewed by the Post, indicated there was strong demand for the new stuffed animal.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will identify two factors that determine consumer demand, identify substitutes and complements, distinguish between fact and opinion in advertisements, and use economic reasoning to better understand the factors behind co...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: EcEdWeb |
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