LESSON PLAN: Personal Finance, Language Arts, and Mathematics - GRADE K
The five lessons in this unit employ active-learning strategies that engage young children. Each lesson is based on a story about two...
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Dec 15, 2023
LESSON PLAN: Monster Musical Chairs - GRADE K-1
Students are read this storybook and identify the scarcity problem the monsters had—not enough chairs for every monster to have one....
Aug 15, 2020
LESSON PLAN: Four Feet, Two Sandals - GRADE 3-5
This lesson requires two class periods. In the first class period, students are asked to think of a way to decide who gets 100 pennies...
Apr 15, 2017
VIDEO: How to Use Models - GRADE 6-9
A video describing how we can use models to usefully summarize aspects of the real world. This video can provide an introduction to the...
Apr 15, 2017
VIDEO: How to Make a Scientific Claim - GRADE 6-9
A BrainPop video describing the factors to take into consideration when making a scientific claim. LINK
May 15, 2016
LESSON PLAN: Values - GRADE 7-8
A lesson plan for trade-offs, opportunity cost, and price formation. For grades 7-8..
Jan 15, 2016
VIDEO: Why Did Contract Laborers Come to Hawaii? - GRADE 7-12
In this video, ex-workers recount memories of working at the Ka'u sugar plantation on Hawaii Island. Contract laborers from Japan,...
Jan 15, 2015
LESSON PLAN: What's the Relationship? - GRADE 8-12
This activity is a discovery lesson designed to help students determine the relationship between unemployment and economic growth through...
Jan 15, 2015
LESSON PLAN: Lanai's Dilemma - GRADE 8-12
An Exercise on Opportunity Cost utilizing the island of Lanai as a case study for grades 8-12.
Mar 15, 2014
LESSON PLAN: Intro to the Economy - Econ Vocab Exercise - GRADE 9-10
Econ vocabulary exercise covering demand, supply, and opportunity cost, among other economic terms. For grades 9-10.
Jan 15, 2014
VIDEO: Cash for Clunkers - GRADE 9-12
In this video you will be introduced to the economic effects of the 2009 government policy 'Cash for Clunkers'. This policy is an example...
Jan 15, 2014
LESSON PLAN: Road to the Age of Discovery - GRADE 9-12
Exercise on Scarcity, and Supply and Demand Curve Shifts for grades 9-12.
Jan 15, 2013
RESOURCE: The Road Not Taken - GRADE 10-12
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I...
Jan 15, 2013
LESSON PLAN: Economic Goals - GRADE 10-12
An exercise on the inconsistency of certain social goals and government regulation for grades 10-12. .
Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Economic Policies, Goals Conflict and Trade-offs - GRADE 11-12
An exercise to teach students the lesson that when government action is taken to promote one desirable goal, it is often found to come...
Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Colonial America - What Can We Produce? - GRADE 11-12
Exercise on Scarcity and the Allocation of Productive Resources for Grades 11-12.
Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: The City Council's Problem - GRADE 11-12
Opportunity Cost Exercise for Grades 11 and 12.
Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: What's Your Choice? - GRADE 11-12
Opportunity Cost Exercise for Grades 11 and 12.
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