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The Teach Economics podcast series includes conversations with leading economic educators on innovative and effective teaching strategies as well as insight on why it’s important to teach economics at all levels.

This article suggests the idea of creating a financial vision board to help kids achieve short and long-term savings goals. The related activity guides them in constructing and personalizing their board.

This article offers suggestions on ways to help kids make better purchasing decisions to avoid buyer's remorse.

This article introduces microloans as a way to invest in entrepreneurs from Third-World countries. Examples of nonprofit organizations that facilitate the microloan process are given, as well as steps to begin investing in their business start-ups.

Investigate how socio-economic scarcity manifests in the lives and learning capacity of youth, as well as how support systems within the community and education system offer assistance, advocacy and programs to promote financial sustainability.

Use your Teacher Talk Planner throughout the school year for fun and easy ideas for including economics and personal finance concepts in your classroom.

Use your Teacher Talk Planner throughout the school year for fun and easy ideas for including economics and personal finance concepts in your classroom.

Technology has certainly sped up our ability to deposit funds and pay bills. With mobile devices and the internet, we are able to access and transfer money faster than ever before. Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment services and smartphone apps make it possible to make and receive real-time payments in our ever-changing world. Learn about the various advantages and disadvantages of this evolution in payment services in the April 2020 issue of Page One Economics®.

Decisions, decisions. There are so many alternatives for when and how to spend our money, and each decision has unseen costs, such as “opportunity costs.” Considering all these costs can complicate our spending decisions, but can also make them better. Learn about the risks of ignoring unseen costs in the October 2019 issue of Page One Economics: Focus on Finance.

Learn about absolute advantage, the ability to produce more of a good or service than another producer using the same amount of resources as that producer, in this short online course. The superhero Jack of All Trades recognizes that although he has the absolute advantage in many tasks, it doesn’t mean he should do all tasks, as Jack explains to mortal, Andy. From this basic concept, you'll move toward an understanding of the benefits of trade and comparative advantage.