Teaching Resources

Teaching Economics with Active Learning

Ten active learning lessons for your economics classroom to make your teaching stick!

Teaching Market Structures with Gum

This lesson highlights how different market structures compete through a role playing game.

Demand

This interactive assignment teaches the demand side of the market.

Building Human Capital | It's Your Paycheck Lesson 1

This interactive assignment teaches the link between investment in human capital and earning income.

Entrepreneurs

In this activity, students assess their own strengths as future entrepreneurs

Kiddynomics: An Economics Curriculum for Young Learners, Lessons for Grades Pre-K-K

Kiddynomics: lessons designed to introduce young children to the economic way of thinking.

Bitcoin: Money or Financial Investment

In this reading assignment, discover the differences of how people view Bitcoin

Making Personal Finance Decisions Curriculum

The Making Personal Finance Decisions curriculum teaches valuable personal finance lessons grounded in economic theory.

Fiscal Policy: Tools for Influencing the Economy

This interactive assignment illustrates how fiscal policy choices can affect the economy.

Fiscal Policy: The Basics of Taxation and Government Spending

This interactive assignment details basic goverenment taxation and spending concepts.

Fiscal Policy

This audio assignment covers how the government uses fiscal policy to influence the economy.

Fiscal & Monetary Policy

In this lesson, students learn about the similarities and differences between fiscal and monetary policy.

Fiscal vs Monetary Policy

In this lesson, students learn about fiscal and monetary policy and distinguish between the two by examining quotes from the news.

Herd Immunity and Positive Externalities Lesson

In this lesson, students investigate the concept of positive externalities.

Externalities

This video assignment explains externalities.

The Economics of Infrastructure

This video assignment shows how infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railroad lines, and power lines support the operation of an economy.

The Business Cycle

This audio assignment describes how the economy moves through phases of the business cycle.

What Are the Ingredients for Growth?

This reading assignment discusses the role that economic institutions play in fostering long-term economic growth.