LESSON PLAN: Anybody for Monopoly? - GRADE 10-12
Exercise comparing Monopoly versus Competitive Markets for grades 10-12.
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Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: Should Hawaii Abolish Zoning? - GRADE 10-12
A discussion around some of the pitfalls associated with zoning, and how it increases house prices. Restoring development right to...
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Jan 15, 2013
LESSON PLAN: Economic Coordination and the Free Market - GRADE 10-12
Lesson plan demonstrating the advantages of using the free market to organize economic activity. For grades 10-12.
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Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: Why Housing in Tokyo Is So Affordable - GRADE 10-12
Greater Tokyo is considered the world's largest city with a population exceeding 37 million residents, and yet its housing costs are a...
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Jan 15, 2013
LESSON PLAN: Chemistry and Economics: Investigating the Elements and Money - GRADE 10-12
There are a number of physical properties that are beneficial for the good we use as money to possess. In this lesson students will...
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Jan 15, 2012
RESOURCE: Mr. Money Moustache Blog - GRADE 11-12
A blog with concrete advice on how get wealthy fast through smart life choices and frugal living. LINK
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Trade-offs of Trade - GRADE 11-12
This activity helps students understand the trade-offs which must be made in economic decision-making. There are costs and benefits for...
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Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: Tax Revenue and Deadweight Losses - GRADE 11-12
This video explains how taxation: (i) reduces economic welfare by increasing the price consumers must pay for goods, (ii) reduces the net...
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Public Goods and Asteroid Defense - GRADE 11-12
An impactful take on the Public Goods problem of market imperfection. Be sure to pair with clips of the films 'Armageddon' (1998, Rated...
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Cause and Effect Schematic - GRADE 11-12
The main purpose behind this schematic is training in cause and and effect thinking. It can be used for any social studies topic. In...
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply - GRADE 11-12
This activity is designed to give students practice in analyzing the effects of changes in aggregate demand and supply on the levels of...
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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...
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Traditional, Market, and Command Economic Systems - GRADE 11-12
An exercise to help students understand the differences between Traditional, Market, and Command economic systems and how each operates....
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLANS: Economics (1994): A Resource Handbook for Teachers - GRADE 11-12
Note: Although this text states in its introduction that it replaces "Economics: A One Semester Course" (1982), that earlier publication...
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: The City Council's Problem - GRADE 11-12
Opportunity Cost Exercise for Grades 11 and 12.
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: What's Your Choice? - GRADE 11-12
Opportunity Cost Exercise for Grades 11 and 12.
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Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: What Made the Modern World? - GRADE 11-12
Celebrated economic historian Dr. Stephen Davies recounts economic growth over the past 200 years (a 10-fold increase in average global...
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Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: What Do Prices Know That You Don't? - GRADE 11-12
A video demonstrating how market prices usefully summarize relevant economic information that would be unobtainable to market actors by...
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Jan 15, 2012
VIDEOS: Rockonomix Contest - GRADE 11-12
Winning examples of 'Rockonomics' economics song contests. Because economics rocks, obviously. In Da Market Oligopoly Baby All Star...
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Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: Everything about Finance and Investing by Bill Ackman - GRADE 11-12
A brilliant summary of essential Finance and Investing principles delivered by the celebrated investor Bill Ackman. LINK
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