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En este episodio de la serie de vídeos Economic Lowdown, la especialista en educación económica Andrea Caceres- Santamaria explica el modelo de flujo circular.

This lesson, based on a children's story, will introduce students to productive resources related to certain jobs and how human capital helps workers perform their jobs.

It is widely accepted within the study of history that cotton played a crucial role in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In this lesson, students work in small groups to produce a toy that can be sold at a price of $5.00. Students track the costs of production for the toy. They then demonstrate the toy and take orders from their classmates. Using the number of orders (quantity demanded), students calculate their total revenue and then either their profit or loss.

App-driven jobs allow workers to decide when, where, and how much to work—one “gig” at a time. Learn more about this new employment trend in the January 2019 issue of Page One Economics.

Students listen to Stuart J. Murphy’s “Lemonade for Sale” and learn about children who use different types of resources to produce and sell lemonade to reach their savings goal: a clubhouse. In this lesson, students get to make their own product and name the kinds of resources used for production. Extension activities are included to integrate graphing for mathematics and advertisements for language arts skills.

In this lesson, students will learn about responsible consumption and how the choices we make when disposing of trash can impact the environment. Students will listen to a story from the book One Plastic Bag, about an entrepreneur; watch a video about pollutants and distinguish between reducing, reusing and recycling. Students will interpret graphs and data within an infographic and demonstrate their knowledge of responsible consumption through developing their own infographic in collaborative groups.

In this lesson, students follow the story of Mr. Cookie Baker to identify economic resources. Students should have basic knowledge of the following economic concepts prior to this lesson: consumer, producer, goods, and services.

Use these questions with children 8 to 10 years old to discuss the following economic concepts in The Tortilla Factory: natural resources, human resources, capital resources, and intermediate goods.

Entrepreneurship is one of the foundations of a dynamic market economy as entrepreneurs are the risk takers and the visionaries who help bring new and innovative ideas to the marketplace. This lesson introduces the concept of entrepreneurship and its depth and breadth in a region.