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What better way to address Common Core standards in Reading Informational Text than by meeting a gentleman that changed the world of technology!
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This program was developed in response to a growing interest in teaching students about personal finance through settings outside of the traditional school day. The program teaches young students about financial choices, cost-bene...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Looking for a lesson that ties Common Core Standards in Reading Informational Text with Economics? This lesson spotlights the life of Milton S. Hershey and allows students to learn about the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship t...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This video teaches the concept of Consumers. Consumers are powerful in a market economy, and the economic choices of consumers in the marketplace drive the behavior of producers.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Decision Making and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Decision making refers to the process by which rational consumers seeking their own happiness or utility will make choices. Cost-benefit analysis is a t...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Incentives. An incentive is a cost or benefit that motivates a decision or action by consumers, workers, firms or other participants in the economy.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Money. Money is anything that is used to buy and sell goods and services. In different times and places, many different items have served as money: gold, silver, shells, cattle, tobacco and printe...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Opportunity Cost. Opportunity cost is what you must give up to obtain something else, the second-best alternative. However, what you must give up to obtain your first choice is not really money--i...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Productive Resources. Productive resources are used to produce goods and services and are classified into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Scarcity. The total resources of society, including natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entrepreneurship, are limited, causing scarcity to exist.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Technology. The set of instructions or blueprints that inform producers about the various ways that capital and labor can be combined to produce a particular product is the technology of productio...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family use: that is, they do not grow all their own food, sew their own clothes, build their own house and pr...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Business Cycles. The pattern in which economies have periods of recession and then also periods of economic expansion or recovery is known as the business cycle.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve. Monetary policy involves regulating the money supply, banks and the overall financial system. Monetary policy is conducted by a central bank, which in the...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Demand. Demand refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good or service that consumers demand.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are willing to risk their own resources in order to sell them for financial gain or profits. They are successful when they provide consumers with goods and services th...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Producers. Producers use scarce resources to produce goods and services which they offer to sell to consumers.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Supply. Supply refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good or service that firms are willing to produce.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Economic Development. Economic development is a sustained increase in the standard of living of a country's population.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Foreign Currency Markets and Exchange Rates. The foreign currency market is where one currency is exchanged for another. An exchange rate is the actual rate of conversion between two currencies.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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