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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Money

For Students 9th - 10th
Economics website presents a video [0:52] and quiz teaching students about the concept of money and monetary goods.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Agent Pincher: The Case of the Ufo

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Agent Pincher: The Case of the UFO--Unfamiliar Foreign Objects. That is what currency from another country may look like. Sometimes when people first try to use money from another country, they feel like they are playing with toy...
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International Monetary Fund: The Imf at a Glance

For Students 9th - 10th
Key information and facts about the IMF are presented.
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Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family use: that is, they do not grow all their own food, sew their own clothes, build their own house and provide...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: You Can Bank on This! (Part 1)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is the first of four lessons on banking for elementary learners. This lesson provides the students with information on banking; it also allows them to try out some procedures for thinking about money and banking. There is a link to...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Trading Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, young scholars will learn about the gains from trade. Students will participate in a trading game that will demonstrate that trade can make everyone better off.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Incentives Influence Us

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Find out more about the concept of incentives in our economy through this lesson plan. "You will identify incentives used at home and school."
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: I Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through the use of folk tales, history, and the students' own experiences, students will recognize the inter-relatedness of goods, services, money. They will locate information about barter as a means of trade, use folk tales as an...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Frontier Specialists

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The level of output in an economy can be increased through specialization. Economic specialization occurs when people produce different goods and services than they consume. It requires people to exchange goods and services.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Hawaiian Economics: Barter for Fish & Poi

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In ancient Hawaii, chiefs managed the economy by creating a land division system, the Ahupua'a, which divided the islands into pie slice shapes. Each Ahupua'a covered the three main regions of the islands: the mountains, the valleys, and...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Marketplace: Let's Go Euro!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With the start of the new year in 2002, the 12 members of the European Union launched a single currency across their borders, replacing individual country currencies and singling out the Euro as their one shared monetary denomination....
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Exchange Rates and Exchange: How Money Affects Trade

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how currency values are set by supply and demand, and how changes in the value of currency affect international trade. Students then find the value of the Brazilian Real in 2000 and 2002, determine whether the currency has...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Exchange

For Students 9th - 10th
Two-story Greek Revival structure with a Doric portico.