Que es una Economia?
Learn about supply and demand, wants and needs, and the flow of goods and services.
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Lessons & Activities
46-60 min
A Bad Deal for the Rain Forests
OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students are given the opportunity to buy small snacks in three different situations. This simulation explains why people may be unwilling to pay for something to happen even though they want it to happen. Students learn to define private goods, public goods, free rider, and incentives.
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Fifty Nifty Econ Cards
Use these vocabulary cards in your classroom to make economics and personal finance fun!
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
46-60 MIN
Understanding Price Elasticity
Introduce elasticity to your students.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
1 HOUR+
Why Money?
Illustrate the difference between bartering and using money.
INFOGRAPHICS & COMICS
What Is an Economy?
Learn about supply, demand, and the flow of goods and services.
INFOGRAPHICS & COMICS
Once Upon A Dime
Learn about barter, currency, and banking.
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CURRICULUM UNITS
Seas, Trees and Economies
Use active lessons about the environoment to teach economic concepts such as trade-offs and decision-making.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
46-60 MIN
The Mystery Trees of Island Breeze
Learn about natural resources and scarcity.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
31-45 MIN
Here Today, Back Here Tomorrow
Define goods, services, consumer, production, natural resources, intermediate goods, waste, and trade-off.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
1 HOUR+
Letter Perfect and Clean Enough
Learn about the types of natural resources that the environment provides.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
46-60 MIN
Waste Not, Want a Lot
Learn how producers respond to various incentives.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
46-60 MIN
Eggs-ternal Costs
Recognize that some actions people take have external costs and how property rights impact those costs.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
46-60 MIN
A Valuable Lesson
Learn that the value of a good or service is the maximum price they are willing and able to pay for it
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
46-60 MIN
Cycling and Recycling Around the Classroom
Discover ways that businesses have reduced the impact of their production and products on the environment.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
1 HOUR+
Eco-Cents
Students discover ways that businesses have reduced the impact of their production and products on the environment.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
46-60 MIN
The Lorax and What the Lore Lacks
Discuss the economic assumptions and lessons of the Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
